St James - Anglican Church. Information on services, mid-week activities and contact details for the vicar.
Burnside Coaches - Family run business situated in Burnopfield operating minibus and luxury coaches for all occasions.
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couldn't cha Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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-- Albert Einstein Burnopfield Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Burnopfield
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Burnopfield You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Burnopfield
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Burnopfield "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Burnopfield
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Burnopfield blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Burnopfield
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Burnopfield To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Burnopfield
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Burnopfield A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Burnopfield
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Burnopfield The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Burnopfield
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Burnopfield Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Burnopfield
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Burnopfield Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Burnopfield
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burnopfield "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burnopfield
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Burnopfield The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Burnopfield
