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2397 (Devizes) Squadron ATC - Uniformed youth organisation for 13-18 year olds. Information about the Squadron, its activities and recruitment, plus a link to its Upavon Detached Flight.
Devizes Town Council - A guide for visitors and residents. Basic information on the council, plus events information and a local services directory.
Devizes Castle - The present owners present photographs of the 19th-century castellated mansion designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge, and a history of the site, which retains fragments of a medieval castle.
This is Devizes - For Devizes news, sport, events, jobs, property, classifieds and tourist information.
Residents Handbook for Calne and Devizes - Community and local information for Calne and Devizes.
Devizes & District Wargames Group - DDWG covers historical/fantasy wargames, role playing and collectable card games.
St James' Southbroom - Information from the parish church for the eastern half of the town.
Devizes Camera Club - Details of meetings, membership and newsletter.
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She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Devizes Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Devizes If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama "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.) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Devizes >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 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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Devizes When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Devizes Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Devizes If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Devizes "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Devizes Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Devizes When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Devizes Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Devizes "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Devizes History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali "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) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Devizes For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Devizes Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Devizes In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Devizes Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Devizes Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Devizes If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Devizes The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Devizes
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