Byfleet - News and history of the village. Includes a summary of the pubs.
The West Byfleet Health Care Centre - Details of the 3 NHS general practices and other local health services that operate from this Health Centre.
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Byfleet There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Byfleet
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Byfleet We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Byfleet
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Byfleet Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Byfleet
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Byfleet "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Byfleet
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "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 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Byfleet In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Byfleet
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Byfleet Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Byfleet
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Byfleet Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Byfleet
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Byfleet I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Byfleet
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Byfleet A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Byfleet
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Byfleet One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Byfleet
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Byfleet 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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Byfleet
