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The Vale and Downland Museum - Includes galleries, friends, local history, newspaper, book shop, coffee shop, opening hours and contact information.
Wantage - Portal includes a directory of local businesses, what to do, and organisations.
Fitzwaryn School - Special school for children ages 3-16. Includes school descriptions, parents' pages, children's pages, class list and projects.
Wantage Camera Club - Programme, news, location and samples of members' work.
Wantage Town Council - Describes the town council of Wantage and lists news, councillors and committees.
Wantage Churches Together - Links Wantage's churches together with news of events and community action.
Wantage.org - Gateway into businesses, organisations and events.
Placetoeat - A directory of local restaurants, cafes and takeaways. Includes sample menus and pictures.
Dave Brown - Biography of a resident of Wantage.
Wantage Chamber of Commerce - Includes objectives, membership, meetings, list of members and contact details.
King Alfred's Leavers - Providing information for reunion of schoolmates that left King Alfred's school or Wantage sixth form between 77-80. Includes reunion news, contact e-mail and familiar faces.
Newbury and Wantage Beekeeping Associations - Two neighbouring associations share the same newsletter. Membership details and programme of events.
Wantage White Horses Swimming Club - Includes background information, training times, joining instructions, club records and personal bests.
Wantage Methodist Church - Presents services and weeks activities, prayers, mission statement, organisations and location.
Wantage Fire Station - Provides services, information and advice for the local community on fire safety and prevention. Includes kids section and incidents log.
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban 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 Wantage Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald 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. -- Wantage "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Wantage Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wantage Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous Wantage You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 Wantage Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson Wantage In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Wantage "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Wantage "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Wantage Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wantage In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Wantage 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Wantage If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Wantage "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Wantage Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wantage When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Wantage If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Wantage The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "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 Wantage Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Wantage "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Wantage >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wantage
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