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Historic town of Egham - Information on places to visit around Egham Town Centre. List of regional links.

Royal Holloway College - Offers higher education and research programmes. Details of departments, services and study guides available online.

Runnymede Christian Fellowship - News, service times, map, contact information, groups and activities.

Juliana's Fitness and Aerobics - A site to promote fitness in general and to encourage exercise.

Egham and District Choral Society - Information including concerts, prices and dates also the history of society.

Egham Cricket Club - Includes team selections, club news, fixtures and league tables.

The 1215 Magna Carta - Translation from the Latin of the first version of the Magna Carta, signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215. Links to glossary and Latin original text.

Pooley Green Growers - Allotments in Runnymede, Surrey. Tips and tricks, pictures, and an account of their campaign to preserve the site and adjacent wildlife refuge against development.

Egham Fencing Club - Location, practice times and costs.

American Community School - American and international school with pupils from 3-18 years of age.

Runnymede Hotel - Details on wedding, banqueting, conferences and all amenities. Search facility available.

Egham Community website - Local community website offering information on local businesses, services, news and events.

Royal Holloway, University of London - Information about the self-catering and bed and breakfast facilities at this university campus.

Starshot Gundogs - Breeder of Hungarian Wirehaired Vizslas and English Springer Spaniels. Pictures of the dogs and useful links.

Great Fosters - County house hotel. Profile, history, facilities, photo gallery and tariff.

Eez of Minders - Organises child and pet care throughout England. Describes its services.

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(Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Egham You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Egham It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Egham There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Egham The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Egham "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Egham "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Egham Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Egham Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "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) Egham Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Egham "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Egham Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Egham "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Egham This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Egham The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Egham "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) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Egham Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress Egham "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Egham Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Egham Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Egham blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." 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