North Cotswold Beekeepers' Association - Information about the association, its events and activities (including a children's section). Newsletter archive and contact details.
Our Lady and St Kenelm - Information about the Catholic churches in Stow and Bourton including Mass times, contact details, parish history, map and news.
Stow-on-the-Wold Town Council - Brief history of town, details of local events and information about community activities and projects.
Stow-on-the-Wold Surgery - Details of local practitioners, clinics, surgery hours and location. Additional information about local healthcare professionals.
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Stow-on-the-Wold When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Stow-on-the-Wold
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 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Stow-on-the-Wold Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Stow-on-the-Wold
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 "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) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stow-on-the-Wold Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Stow-on-the-Wold
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "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) "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 Stow-on-the-Wold The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Stow-on-the-Wold Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Stow-on-the-Wold
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Stow-on-the-Wold Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Stow-on-the-Wold Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Stow-on-the-Wold
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Stow-on-the-Wold "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Stow-on-the-Wold
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Stow-on-the-Wold A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Stow-on-the-Wold
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Stow-on-the-Wold I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson ... 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
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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Stow-on-the-Wold Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Stow-on-the-Wold
