Adderbury on the Net - Portal for the village. Includes local links and location.
1st Adderbury Scout Troup - Includes programme, activities, noticeboard, patrols, hall of fame and contact information.
The Bell Inn - Information on the traditional rual pub and restaurant with menu and contact details.
Bo Peep Farm Caravan Park. - Touring caravan and camping site on a 70 acre Cotswold Farm. RV's and tents welcome.
Le Restaurant Francais - Serving French style cuisine at Morgans Orchard. Includes menu, details of speciality nights and contact details.
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Adderbury The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Adderbury
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Adderbury The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Adderbury
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Adderbury If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Adderbury
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Adderbury Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Adderbury
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Adderbury And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "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) Adderbury
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Adderbury "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Adderbury
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Adderbury Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Adderbury
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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" Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Adderbury "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Adderbury
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Adderbury I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Adderbury
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Adderbury I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Adderbury
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Adderbury The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Adderbury
