Buntingford - Community pages containing a directory of shops and companies, events, restaurants and places to visit.
M J Warner - VW specialist dealer offering sales, service, parts and a body shop. Includes information about the cars and accompanying services, and contacts.
Carovale Vending - Vending machines for food and drink products. Sales and service.
Azteq Corporation - Supplies new and used computer equipment worldwide. Profile, supported manufacturers, stock list and enquiry form.
Leach Homes - Residential property developer. Current developments, company profile, job vacancies and brochure request service.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Buntingford All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Buntingford
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Buntingford You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Buntingford
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Buntingford 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, When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Buntingford
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Buntingford You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Buntingford
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Buntingford If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Buntingford
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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Buntingford Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Buntingford
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Buntingford I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Buntingford
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Buntingford "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Buntingford
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Buntingford "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Buntingford
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Buntingford An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Buntingford
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Buntingford With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Buntingford
