Ashton Keynes Online - Community information including local business and forthcoming events.
Ashton Keynes School - Primary school information including term diary, newsletters, gallery and official reports.
Acetrain - Manufacturers of portable smoke machines list their products.
Ashton Keynes Vintage Restorations - Undertakes partial or complete restorations of vintage cars. Company history, credentials and previous projects.
Ashton Keynes Angling Club - An Angling Club providing coarse fishing in the Cotswolds Water Park. Locations, rules, permits and gallery.
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Ashton Keynes "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Ashton Keynes
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Ashton Keynes I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ashton Keynes
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Ashton Keynes Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Ashton Keynes
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Ashton Keynes Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Ashton Keynes
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Ashton Keynes The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Ashton Keynes
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Ashton Keynes 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Ashton Keynes
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Ashton Keynes I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ashton Keynes
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Ashton Keynes "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Ashton Keynes
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'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ashton Keynes Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Ashton Keynes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ashton Keynes Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Ashton Keynes
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Ashton Keynes "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Ashton Keynes
