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Quainton Net - Official site for the village of Quainton keen to provide more information about the numerous groups and events in the village. History of the village, school and church, current village and parish news, local classifieds plus church, school and other local society information with location and contact details.
Quainton Windmill - Information about this 1930's tall mill. Location, opening times, admission price and contact details.
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre - A working steam museum in the village of Quainton. Information about opening times, and timetable for running, special events and details of hiring station for corporate events and weddings. Location and contact details.
Waddesdon Manor - This astonishing Renaissance-style château was designed by French architect Destailleur in 1874 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Includes history, images, visitor information, location and means of contact.
Waddesdon Church of England School - An 11-18 mixed voluntary aided secondary modern school. Includes prospectus, curriculum, reports, vacancies, school news items, diary dates, admissions notes for parents, location and contact details.
Grendon Underwood School - Combined school takes pupils aged between 4+ and 11 from the local villages. Mission and aims, prospectus and policies, newsletter, work done by pupils along with information on school sports, trips and contact details.
Blasdale Web - This is the personal site of the Blasdale family consisting of three members, Rosemary, Stephen and Selina, who reside locally. Information about their interests, together with picture albums.
Underwood Kitchens and Furniture - Design and manufacture bespoke kitchens at their Grendon Underwood workshops. Information about the company, their products and services, client testimonials, locate and contact details.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln Waddesdon It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Waddesdon 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Waddesdon "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Waddesdon I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Waddesdon Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Waddesdon Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Waddesdon "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Waddesdon Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Waddesdon Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Waddesdon If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Waddesdon Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Waddesdon Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Waddesdon Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Waddesdon America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Waddesdon Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Waddesdon This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Waddesdon Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words 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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Waddesdon Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Waddesdon blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Waddesdon Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Waddesdon Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell 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 Waddesdon
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