Kidlington Air Cadets - Uniformed youth organisation for 13-18 year olds. Information about this squadron, its activities, history and recruitment, plus details about the Air Training Corps.
Kidlington Concert Brass - Local brass band. Includes information on compact discs, upcoming dates, the conductor and contact details.
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unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein Kidlington "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) "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) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Kidlington Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Kidlington
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Kidlington The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Kidlington
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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" Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Kidlington Journalism is merely history's first draft.
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History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Kidlington I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Kidlington
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Kidlington Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Kidlington
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Kidlington Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Kidlington The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Kidlington Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Kidlington
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Kidlington Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Kidlington
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Kidlington One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Kidlington
