Blaxton Village - Details and pictures of Blaxton, a small village situated close to Doncaster. Includes the parish council and social committee minutes, neighbourhood watch news, business links, and a village history.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Blaxton Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A 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 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Blaxton
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Blaxton blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Blaxton
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Blaxton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf My other wife is beautiful. Blaxton
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Blaxton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Blaxton
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blaxton The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "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) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Blaxton
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Blaxton Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Blaxton
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Blaxton Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Blaxton
Man and wife make one fool. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Blaxton Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Blaxton
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Blaxton Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Blaxton
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Blaxton Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Blaxton
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Blaxton Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Blaxton
