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Banbury Camera Club - Includes details of meetings, competitions, membership and rules.
Banbury Historical Society - Includes membership information, events programme, publications in print, archive and preparation, meeting information and contact address.
Dogs For The Disabled - Charity which helps disabled people to increase their independence by training specially selected dogs to live and work with them, giving them an enhanced quality of life. Includes history, dogs, clients and donation form.
Foundation for International Security - Organisation dealing with public and private sector conflict resolution. Includes summary of current projects, history, research programmes, resources and contact information.
St Mary's Church Banbury - The Church of England and United Reformed Church in the town centre. Includes worship, the weekly pewsheet, service times and contact details.
St Leonard's Church - Parish Church of Grimsbury. Includes information on services, weekly newsletter, contact details, history, activities and social events.
Marlborough Road Methodist Church - Overview, diary, preachers, clubs and groups, organisations, notices, events and afternoon teas served, by arrangement, for groups visiting the area.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Society and Culture "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture Spinster: A bachelor's wife. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Society and Culture 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Society and Culture The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Society and Culture "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Society and Culture Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Society and Culture One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Society and Culture
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