Local Past - Official site of the Alcester and District Local History Society. Introduction, past issues and occasional papers organised by location or topic.
Ragley Hall - Virtual tour, opening times, events and corporate facilities. Site requires Flash.
Don't DIY Handyman Services - DIY support and Handyman service that installs and assembles items bought from local DIY shops.
The Blue Boar Inn - An old English country tavern offering en-suite accommodation. Located in Temple Grafton.
Alcester Court Leet - The local Lord of the Manor created the Alcester Court Leet 'by Royal Consent' over 700 years ago to him in the administration of his estate and the manor of Alcester.
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-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Alcester "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Alcester
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Alcester My other wife is beautiful. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Alcester
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Alcester "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Alcester
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Alcester 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Alcester
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alcester The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Alcester
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 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Alcester The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Alcester
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Alcester The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Alcester
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Alcester It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Alcester
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Alcester 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 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Alcester
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Alcester "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Alcester
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Alcester Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Alcester
