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Winchcombe - A picture rich guide to this perfectly preserved Cotswold wool town. Includes events, accommodation, history, tourism and shops. Presented by the local business forum.
Alderton Parish - Information about the village for residents and visitors alike. It includes up to date news reports, and a useful diary section.
Winchcombe Info - Local community information site. Interactive calendar, database of local accommodation and pubs.
Old White Lion Inn - 15th Century coaching inn in the centre of the town, with information about the accommodation and restaurant, with online booking available for both.
Winchcombe School - Foundation secondary school for ages 11 to 16. Includes calendar, and information about the school, curriculum and activities, staff and governors, and School Association.
History and Genealogy - Historical and genealogical information
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Winchcombe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Winchcombe If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Winchcombe What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Winchcombe Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Winchcombe Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winchcombe We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Winchcombe If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Winchcombe Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Winchcombe "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Winchcombe An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Winchcombe There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Winchcombe What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Winchcombe This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Winchcombe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Winchcombe It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Winchcombe Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Winchcombe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Winchcombe Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Winchcombe Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Winchcombe Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Winchcombe Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Winchcombe
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