Ruyton XI Towns - A history of the village and how it received its unusual name. Also includes information on amenities and social activities.
Packwood Haugh School - A long established traditional Preparatory School continuing to achieve academic and sporting success, whilst widening and developing the teaching and activities provided.
Brownhill House - Accommodation with old world standards, modern facilities. Information, photographs, location, contact details and links.
Dairi-Pak - Manufacturers and suppliers of corrugated packaging. Contains company profile, product details, news, and contact information.
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What's new? Most of my wife. Ruyton XI Towns Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ruyton XI Towns
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Ruyton XI Towns "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ruyton XI Towns
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ruyton XI Towns Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ruyton XI Towns
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Ruyton XI Towns "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Ruyton XI Towns
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Ruyton XI Towns You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Ruyton XI Towns
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Ruyton XI Towns "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Ruyton XI Towns
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Ruyton XI Towns The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Ruyton XI Towns
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ruyton XI Towns Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Ruyton XI Towns
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Ruyton XI Towns Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Ruyton XI Towns
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Ruyton XI Towns "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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ruyton XI Towns
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Ruyton XI Towns There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Ruyton XI Towns
