Otmoor - Area between Oxford and Bicester, includes accommodation, local events, and the RSPB reserve.
OxLink - Provides information on the different towns in the region through the use of mini-websites. Also travel and tourist information town maps, forums and news.
Steventon Choral Society - Mixed voice choir of about 40 singers. Profile, repertoire, events and information about rehearsals.
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Oxfordshire Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Oxfordshire
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Oxfordshire 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 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Oxfordshire
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Oxfordshire Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Oxfordshire
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Oxfordshire The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Oxfordshire
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Oxfordshire The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Oxfordshire
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Oxfordshire We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Oxfordshire
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Oxfordshire "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Oxfordshire
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Oxfordshire What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Oxfordshire
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Oxfordshire Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Oxfordshire
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Oxfordshire The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Oxfordshire
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Oxfordshire Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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 Oxfordshire
