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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway - History of this ex-Great Western Railways branch line. Includes location map, timetable, news, photographs, stock list and membership information.
Chinnor Musical Theatre - Presenting musical shows in Chinnor and Thame. Includes upcoming shows, goals of the group, recent shows and contact details.
Knowhere Guide to Chinnor - Informal information about the village, supplied by locals. Includes hook-up and skateboard spots, plus local businesses.
Chinnor Net - Information about the village: history, local information, services, schools, churches, societies, clubs plus links to other county websites.
Anthony Byrne Dental Laboratory - Includes information about the facility, the staff, diary and contact details.
The Inn at Emmington - Family run country inn detailing its hotel accommodation, restaurant and menus, local attractions and contact information.
Seymour surname village - Photos of the area.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Chinnor I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Chinnor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Chinnor He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Chinnor You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Chinnor Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Chinnor The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer Chinnor Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Chinnor It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Chinnor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Chinnor "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Chinnor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Chinnor "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Chinnor Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chinnor The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Chinnor In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Chinnor Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Chinnor Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Chinnor If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 Chinnor A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Chinnor Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Chinnor Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Chinnor
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