Fletching Bonfire Society - Celebrates Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. Describes its activities with newsletter, calendar and photo gallery.
The Griffin Inn - This pub and restaurant also offers bed and breakfast. Profile, facilities and menus with local attractions.
Fletching School - Church of England primary school. Includes activities, prospectus, news and photo gallery.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Fletching Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fletching
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Fletching "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Fletching
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Fletching What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Fletching
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Fletching "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Fletching
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Fletching You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Fletching
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Fletching Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Fletching
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Fletching Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Fletching
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Fletching Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Fletching
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Fletching Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Fletching
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Fletching To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Fletching
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Fletching "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Fletching
