The Woodcote Pre-school - Offers full day care for children from 2 years old. Describes its services with calendar, opening times and prices.
The Oratory School - Catholic boarding school for about 350 boys between the ages of 13 and 18. Describes its facilities with information about admissions and calendar.
Ricci's on the Green - French bistro in Woodcote. Profile, menus, wine list and directions.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Woodcote Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Woodcote
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Woodcote An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Woodcote
Man and wife make one fool. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Woodcote Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Woodcote "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Woodcote
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "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) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Woodcote There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Woodcote
"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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Woodcote The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Woodcote
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Woodcote A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Woodcote
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Woodcote If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Woodcote
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Woodcote When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Woodcote
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Woodcote Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Woodcote
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Woodcote Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Woodcote
