Sodbury Players - Local amateur dramatics group. Perform 3 main productions each year. Includes history, diary, past productions, list of committee members, and membership information.
Chipping Sodbury RFC - Includes news, information and history. Three full sides, a ladies XV and youth section.
Saint Lawrence - Catholic church. Contact details, Mass times and parish diary. Uses frames.
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Chipping Sodbury Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Chipping Sodbury
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Chipping Sodbury If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Chipping Sodbury
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 "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) Chipping Sodbury An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Chipping Sodbury
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Chipping Sodbury Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Chipping Sodbury
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Chipping Sodbury A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Chipping Sodbury
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Chipping Sodbury The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Chipping Sodbury
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Chipping Sodbury There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Chipping Sodbury
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Chipping Sodbury "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 Chipping Sodbury
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Chipping Sodbury Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Chipping Sodbury
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Chipping Sodbury Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Chipping Sodbury
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville 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 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Chipping Sodbury Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Chipping Sodbury
