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Tetbury Town - Personal homepage with information about Tetbury Town Football Club, Yipps Skittles Team, the history of the town, IF-PC computer services and links.
Westonbirt School - An independent girl's school - in its 70 years, the school has matured into a provider for girls of a first-class preparation for the world of work.
Tetbury Online - Guide for residents and visitors to the town. Features local information, message boards and a guest book.
Welcome to Tetbury - Includes tourist information, directory of local government services, and business listings.
Sir William Romney's School - School for ages 11 to 18. Includes school brochure, mission statement, departments, sixth form and events calendar.
Beaufort Polo Club - Features fixtures, events and links.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Tetbury My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Tetbury Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell "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) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Tetbury The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Tetbury I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Tetbury It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Tetbury Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 Tetbury Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Tetbury "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde Tetbury "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Tetbury "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Tetbury When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Tetbury Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Tetbury The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tetbury Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Tetbury "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Tetbury We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Tetbury Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 Tetbury The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain 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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb Tetbury Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Tetbury "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Tetbury Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Tetbury
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