Bourton-on-the-Water Information - An advertising guide including sections on local attractions, accommodation, shopping and amenities.
Fundays Play Barn - Description of bookable indoor party space for kids. Includes information about facilities, events, and prices. [Requires Flash]
Cotswold School - Information about this 11-18 comprehensive school. Includes a prospectus and a detailed calendar of forthcoming events and activities.
Bourton-on-the-Water - Details of local amenities, events and accommodation. Maintained by the local Chamber of Commerce.
RAF Little Rissington - Photographs, history and reminiscences of this World War II airfield mostly used as a Flight Training School and now used as a glider school at weekends.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Bourton-on-the-Water Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Bourton-on-the-Water
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Bourton-on-the-Water Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Bourton-on-the-Water
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Bourton-on-the-Water 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Bourton-on-the-Water
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bourton-on-the-Water The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Bourton-on-the-Water
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Bourton-on-the-Water You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Bourton-on-the-Water
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Bourton-on-the-Water Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Bourton-on-the-Water
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Bourton-on-the-Water To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Bourton-on-the-Water
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Bourton-on-the-Water An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Bourton-on-the-Water
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Bourton-on-the-Water I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Bourton-on-the-Water
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Bourton-on-the-Water "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Bourton-on-the-Water
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Bourton-on-the-Water "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet 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 Bourton-on-the-Water
