Barming Banter - An on-line magazine for the village with news and local links.
Barming School - Primary school. Events, PTA information and examples of the pupils' artwork.
Barming Scout Fellowship - Friends of Barming Scouts, FOBS, includes notice board, events, and contacts.
St Andrew's Church - Church history, services, newsletter, diary and activities.
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Barming Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Barming
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Barming "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Barming
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Barming The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Barming
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Barming All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Barming
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Barming That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Barming
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Barming If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Barming
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Barming I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Barming
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Barming "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Barming
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Barming Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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. Barming
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Barming Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Barming
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Barming Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Barming
