St Mary's Church, Chosley - Information about a church that features in the Domesday book, and is also the final resting place of Agatha Christie. It includes a brief history, vision of the ministry, schedule of activities, links and contacts.
South Oxon Methodists - Wantage and Abingdon Methodist circuit which is comprised of 13 churches. Churches, news and youth work.
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-- H. L. Mencken The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 Religion
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "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) Religion A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Religion "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Religion
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Religion
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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Religion "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Religion
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Religion Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Religion Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Religion
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Religion Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Religion
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Religion If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Religion
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Religion A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Religion
