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Steeple Claydon - Village community website for 'The Claydons' villages. Offering discussion, history, news events, photo gallery and means of contact.
East Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of East Claydon.
Middle Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of Middle Claydon
Steeple Claydon - Genealogical and historic information on the village of Steeple Claydon.
Steeple Claydon Football Club - Information about the club known as the Magpies. News and events, fixtures and results, statistics and contact details.
Claydon House - National Trust property page with information about opening times and facilities. Links to events at this property and location map.
Florence Nightingale: Claydon House - An article by Lucinda Lambton about the house and it's association with Florence Nightingale.
The Raffles Gamelan at Claydon House - An article by Sam Quigley about a fascinating set of instruments and their providence now on show at the house.
BouncyPartyHire.com - Bouncy castles, marquees and giant games for hire for parties and other events. Photos, details and prices of products, delivery area map covering parts of both Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire with delivery costs, plus some frequently asked questions answered and means of contact. [Twyford]
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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Steeple Claydon No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Steeple Claydon The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Steeple Claydon "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein 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 Steeple Claydon Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Steeple Claydon Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Steeple Claydon English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Steeple Claydon In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Steeple Claydon In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Steeple Claydon The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Steeple Claydon When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Steeple Claydon "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Steeple Claydon Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Steeple Claydon "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Steeple Claydon 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Steeple Claydon I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Steeple Claydon Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy "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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Steeple Claydon They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Steeple Claydon Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Steeple Claydon If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Steeple Claydon
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