The Chesterfords Pre-School - Provides education for children from Great and Little Chesterford and surrounding villages. Includes description of services and contact details.
Tony Sandles Glass - Designer of mainly stained, architectural and sand-etched glass and glass furniture. Examples of creations and contact.
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Chesterfords, The If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Chesterfords, The
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Chesterfords, The Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Chesterfords, The
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Chesterfords, The "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Chesterfords, The
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Chesterfords, The The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Chesterfords, The
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Chesterfords, The Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Chesterfords, The
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Chesterfords, The Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Chesterfords, The
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Chesterfords, The I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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.
-- Winston Churchill You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Chesterfords, The
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Chesterfords, The "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Chesterfords, The
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Chesterfords, The
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Chesterfords, The Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Chesterfords, The
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Chesterfords, The Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Chesterfords, The
