Thornbury - Includes news and events, and links to local information, businesses, and organisations.
Community Association - A registered charity for the benefit of the surrounding districts
Thornbury Rugby Club - Chat to players and supporters; read reports and view photos; improve your training and diet. Gloucester Premier.
Oldown Country Park - Country park just north of Bristol with farm, woodlands, activities. Attractions include pick your own fruit in season, coffee shop, tractor rides.
Aztec Hotel - A four star hotel with 128 rooms located on the Aztec West Business Park.
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Thornbury I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Thornbury
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Man and wife make one fool. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Thornbury Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Thornbury
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Thornbury They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Thornbury
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Thornbury A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Thornbury
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Thornbury Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Thornbury
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Thornbury "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Thornbury
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Thornbury My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Thornbury
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Thornbury One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Thornbury
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Thornbury Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Thornbury
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Thornbury "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Thornbury
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Thornbury The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "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.) Thornbury
