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Saint John the Baptist Anglican Church - Information about the church, services, village, choir, school, and museum.
Ram Hall Farm Dairy - Details of production method for Berkswell hard cheese, and awards and reviews for cheese from this manufacturer.
Berkswell - Local history, landmarks and attractions of the village.
Berkswell.org.uk - Community directory for the parish and surrounding villages. Includes transport information and a local event guide.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Berkswell "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Berkswell Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Berkswell What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Berkswell Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Berkswell Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Berkswell "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Berkswell "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Berkswell You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Berkswell Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Berkswell Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Berkswell To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Berkswell Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer >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 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Berkswell I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Berkswell Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Berkswell Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) 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, Berkswell People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Berkswell Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Berkswell 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, Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Berkswell Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Berkswell "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Berkswell I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Berkswell
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