Barton-under-Needwood - Offers a history of the village along with a description and views. Also includes news, events diary, clubs and societies directory.
Barton Badminton Club - Offers details about upcoming matches, membership and location.
John Taylor High School - Includes prospectus, calendar, prospective parents information, and contact details.
Shoulder of Mutton - Pub with restaurant. Profile, history and menus. [Requires Flash]
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Barton-under-Needwood "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Barton-under-Needwood
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Barton-under-Needwood Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "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) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Barton-under-Needwood
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Barton-under-Needwood "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Barton-under-Needwood
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Barton-under-Needwood "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Barton-under-Needwood
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Barton-under-Needwood I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Barton-under-Needwood
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Barton-under-Needwood When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Barton-under-Needwood
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Barton-under-Needwood Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Barton-under-Needwood
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Barton-under-Needwood "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Barton-under-Needwood
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Barton-under-Needwood It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Barton-under-Needwood "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) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Barton-under-Needwood
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Barton-under-Needwood "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Barton-under-Needwood
