Royal British Legion Industries - Located in Royal British Legion Village. Care and support for ex-Servicemen and women, and employment and training for people with disabilities. Includes mail order catalogue and details of services offered.
Ditton CE Junior School - Features PTA news, examples of pupils' work, events and OfSTED report.
Aylesford School - State secondary school. Includes prospectus and policies, departments, job vacancies and location.
Aylesford Medical Centre - Family practice based in the village. Provides medical advice, staff profiles and location.
Aylesford Rugby Club - Club history, fixtures, events, league tables and contacts.
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Aylesford He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Aylesford
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Aylesford Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Aylesford
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Aylesford All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Aylesford
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Aylesford Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Aylesford
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Aylesford "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Aylesford
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Aylesford They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Aylesford
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Aylesford 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 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Aylesford
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Aylesford How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Aylesford
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Aylesford "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Aylesford
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Aylesford A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Aylesford
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Aylesford My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aylesford
