Abingdon Museum Friends - Dedicated to promoting public awareness and enjoyment of Abingdon Museum, located in the historic County Hall building. Includes events, membership fees, locaitn map, and contact details.
Abingdon Music Festival - An annual non-competitive event for singers, instrumentalists and ensembles of all ages, with hands-on assessment by professional adjudicators and a final concert selected from outstanding entries.
Abingdon College and District Film Society - Provides a full programme and details of next screening, membership and organisation information and downloadable programme notes and members' reactions for the films already shown.
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Arts and Entertainment
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "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) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Arts and Entertainment Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Arts and Entertainment
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 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Arts and Entertainment
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Arts and Entertainment
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Arts and Entertainment "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Arts and Entertainment
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Arts and Entertainment
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Arts and Entertainment "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Arts and Entertainment I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment
