Banbury Town Council - Includes information about the council members, the function and services, a ward map and a calendar of meetings.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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 sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Government
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Government A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Government
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Government Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Government Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Government Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Government
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Government "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Government
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Government "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Government
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Government In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Government
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Government "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) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government
