North Witney Community Church - Has informal style of worship, which seeks to involve everyone. Profile, activities and groups with diary and service times.
Oasis Family Church - Information on the purposes, meetings, personal stories, events and contact details.
Pet Refuge - Pet Refuge fosters the pets of families escaping domestic violence. Profile and services with news and sponsors.
Welcome Evangelical Church - Includes declaration of faith, diary, world mission, directions, youth program and contact details.
MyWitney.com - A collection of stories and anecdotes tracing the history of the market town.
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Society and Culture If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Society and Culture
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Society and Culture
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society and Culture "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Society and Culture
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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) Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Society and Culture In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
