Chippenham Town Council - Information on the town and its history, as well as upcoming events and amenities within the town.
Chippenham Now - Information on upcoming events and what's on in town.
Matherwood - Showcase of woodturning work by Dick Mather, and designs of crochet sweaters and hats by Deborah Mather. Galleries, exhibitions and artists' histories.
Chippenham Stroke Club - Support for people who have suffered from strokes. Includes photo and events programme.
Lady Pamela's Chauffeuring - Offering a range of transportation services including local taxis. Site includes details of services and photos of cars available.
Chippenham Twinning Association - Information on twin towns of La Flèche and Friedberg, the association, and membership details.
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Chippenham "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Chippenham
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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, Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Chippenham "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Chippenham
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Chippenham "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Chippenham
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Chippenham The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Chippenham
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Chippenham Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Chippenham
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chippenham "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Chippenham
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Chippenham The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Chippenham
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Chippenham If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Chippenham
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Chippenham If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Chippenham
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Chippenham Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Chippenham
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Chippenham blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Chippenham
