Waverley Borough Council - Waverley in Surrey, UK. 40 mins from London on the train, close to Gatwick and Heathrow airports, superbly placed for tourism, trade and enjoying the good life. This is the Council site that's full of links.
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Waverley blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Waverley
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Waverley All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Waverley
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Waverley Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Waverley
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Waverley Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Waverley
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Waverley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Waverley
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Man and wife make one fool. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Waverley Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Waverley
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Waverley They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Waverley
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Waverley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Waverley
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Waverley I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Waverley
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Waverley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Waverley
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Waverley Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Waverley
