Woodchester and Selsley Guide - Two interesting villages in the Cotswolds. Woodchester has a famous Roman villa and a mansion that is an example of fine Victorian architecture. Selsley Church boasts a stained glass by William Morris.
Woodchester Mansion - A 19th century building that was never completed. Includes a history and opening times.
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- Walter Prager Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Woodchester
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Woodchester A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Woodchester
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Woodchester I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Abraham Lincoln "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Woodchester Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Woodchester "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Woodchester
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Woodchester "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Woodchester What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Woodchester
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 Woodchester The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Woodchester
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Woodchester There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Woodchester
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Woodchester To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Woodchester
