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Oswestry - This site provides information about Oswestry, A little about its history, Things to do and places to go in and around Oswestry. There is also a Guide to Oswestry's Pubs and there are some stories about Oswestry in years gone by.
Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel - Hotel set in secluded Shropshire countryside, that has 2 AA rosettes for good Food. The hotel, a former rectory, is right on the Wales and England border.
Jewelion's Oswestry Index - A complete listing of businesses and services in the Oswestry area.
Oswestry - Information on and about Oswestry.
Shropshire Podiatrist - State registered chiropodist offering visiting service and clinics based in Oswestry near the north Wales border with Shropshire.
Oswestry and Border Counties Advertiser - Local newspaper containing articles and advertisements for the area.
Oswestry News Source - Contains a satirical look at local issues, sport, and art.
Oswestry Photographic Society - Programme, membership rules and benefits, list of officers and contacts, competition rules and awards and pictures by members.
Oswestry School - Founded in 1407, Oswestry School is an independent boarding and day school for boys and girls from age 2.5 up to 18 years
Park Hall Farm - Information about the visitor attraction, including news, events and location details.
The Institute of Orthopaedics. - Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Oswestry.
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Chesterton Oswestry Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Oswestry In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Oswestry "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Oswestry We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Oswestry "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Oswestry A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Oswestry "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Oswestry Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Oswestry The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Oswestry "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Oswestry "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. 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Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Oswestry One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Oswestry
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