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Oxford information - Information about Oxford from the University Comlab.
Oxford Trading.com - Town guide including shopping and tourism information, and local news.
Oxfordpages - Local history of Oxford, what's on guide and information about local attractions, accommodation and dining with exclusive discount vouchers.
The Scholar's Guide to Oxford - Information about the city, including accommodation, pubs, and walking tours.
Oxford City site - Guide to the city, what's on diary, maps, accommodation, shopping, what to do and what to see.
Itchy Oxford - Local entertainment, shopping, sport, accommodation, with listings, news and venue reviews.
Kennington Village - Village on Oxford outskirts, with info on the parish council, societies, schools and churches.
Sandford-on-Thames - Local information, history, timetables, and a forum.
Headington - A non-commercial community website with a history section, information and news.
Elsfield Village - Village near Oxford. Site includes information on the annual plant sale and on the writer John Buchan who lived in Elsfield from 1919 to 1935.
OxfordNightLife.com - Provides information on nightlife in Oxford with news, events, details of clubs, pubs and bars and eating out. Includes an interactive calendar, message board and newsletter.
Daily Information - Daily guide to what's on in Oxford. The web version of The Printed Sheet. Includes jobs, sales and classifieds, food and drink and service index.
In Oxford Magazine - A guide to what's on in the city, including theatre, cinema and music listings, gallery and museum exhibitions and restaurant and hotel reviews.
Oxford Watson - A guide to what's on in the city for students.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers 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 Guides and Directories I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Guides and Directories In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Guides and Directories Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Guides and Directories He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Guides and Directories Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Guides and Directories Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Guides and Directories The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln "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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Guides and Directories Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Guides and Directories Man and wife make one fool. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Guides and Directories Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Guides and Directories "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Guides and Directories Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Guides and Directories I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Guides and Directories "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Guides and Directories If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Guides and Directories Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Guides and Directories
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