Chipping Campden - A community site for the village. Contains information about the businesses there, plus a little about clubs, societies, activities and the history of the area.
Chipping Campden School - Co-educational voluntary controlled comprehensive secondary school for ages 11-18. Includes prospectus, curriculum, Technology College pages, calendar, news, and photo gallery.
Campden Art Society - Features a programme of events, exhibitions and list of members.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Chipping Campden "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Chipping Campden "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Chipping Campden
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Chipping Campden Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Chipping Campden
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Chipping Campden Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Chipping Campden
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Chipping Campden Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Chipping Campden
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Chipping Campden Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Chipping Campden
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Chipping Campden Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Chipping Campden
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Chipping Campden An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Chipping Campden
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Chipping Campden Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Chipping Campden
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Chipping Campden America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Chipping Campden
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Chipping Campden The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Chipping Campden
