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Burbage Heritage Group - Some history and a news letter about this village.
The Bridge Online - New Methodist initiative that seeks to communicate the Christian message through hospitality and in an accessible, relaxed and informal setting.
Burbage Community Arts Festival - Information about music, drama, dance and the arts in this village. Performances by local people and professionals. Programme of events for the festival.
Burbage Guest House - Includes tariffs, photos, directions and contact details.
Burbage RFC - Rugby Football club. News, fixtures, social events, match reports, and photographs.
Sheds and DIY - Sheds made to your own design. Photos and contact details.
Burbage Junior School - Content aimed at children and parents alike. Fun, news, overview, learn and links.
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Burbage If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Burbage "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Burbage I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. 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 Burbage Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Burbage Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Burbage A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Burbage Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Burbage "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Burbage No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Burbage Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Burbage "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Burbage "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Burbage "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Burbage The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Burbage "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Burbage Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Burbage "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Burbage A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Burbage I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Burbage Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Burbage "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Burbage
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