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South Bucks District Council - Official site - Information about councillors, community safety, elections, planning, building control, environmental health, leisure, arts, and jobs.
Oultwood: Buckinghamshire - Local government council links, with clickable maps and lists, from private company in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Aylesbury Vale District Council - Information on the environment, business opportunities and Council services for the Vale of Aylesbury.
Chiltern District Council - Official information about services for residents and tourists. Includes leisure facilities, accessibility, licensing, calendar of meetings and guest book.
Wycombe District Council - Information and news about tourism, transport, business, leisure facilities, planning and contacts for councillors.
Buckinghamshire Association of Local Councils - An association representing the majority of local parish and town councils in Buckinghamshire providing a wide range of advisory and support services for its members.
Watermead Parish Council - Information on the village, services and council.
Buckinghamshire Accessible Services Partnership (BASP) - Local government, e-government initiatives under one roof. Information about the initiative, facility to search all local government services in Buckinghamshire, some questions answered plus on-line feedback.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Government In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Government Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Government Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Government Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Government It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Government "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Government America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Government What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Government "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Government "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Government Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Government "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Government Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Government "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Government I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Government "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Government How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli Government True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Government You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Government Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Government
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