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Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards Parish - Covers the villages of Buckland Common, Cholesbury, Hawridge and St Leonards, with local history, events, organisations and parish map.
Knowhere Guide. - Informal information supplied by locals, with links to noticeboard facility.
Chesham Park Community College - Mixed gender, non selective, 12- 18 years age group. With location, history and academic objectives.
Graham George Green Private Tuition - Teaches maths and science locally or online. Pricing and details.
Katsina - A chalet bungalow in Botley, Ley Hill. Details of accommodation and local amenities, with photographs.
The Chesham Web - Offering information, history and resources for residents, businesses and visitors.
St Columba's Catholic Church - The Parish of St Columba, Chesham, is part of the Catholic Diocese of Northampton.
Chesham Library - Location, contact details, opening hours and library links.
Ley Hill - Includes details about events and activities in Ley Hill village with information supplied by Ley Hill Methodist Church.
Given Names, 1538-1600/1 - Names given from the Parish register. Split male and female.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Chesham All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle What's new? Most of my wife. It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Chesham People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Chesham "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Chesham Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Chesham If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Chesham If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Chesham "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chesham "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Chesham The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Chesham >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Chesham "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Chesham Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Chesham Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Chesham "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Chesham "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Chesham "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Chesham By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Chesham If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Chesham "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Chesham Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Chesham "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Chesham
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