Ann March Watercolours - Gallery of original watercolours and limited edition prints by artist.
Shepherd, Chris - Personal page including biography and information about Highworth.
Westrop Surgery - General practitioners give information about surgery including policy on repeat prescriptions, surgery hours and useful telephone numbers.
GWR Highworth Branch Line - History of the Swindon to Highworth branch line (being built as a Microsoft Train Simulator route). A virtual railway company with some rolling stock for download.
Highworth Amateur Dramatic Society - Calendar, details of next show and previous shows, tickets, contacts, pictures and history of the society.
This is Highworth - News, sport, and features, with local information.
Highworth Choral Society - Provides details of rehearsals, performances, history and membership of the society.
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Highworth Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Highworth
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Highworth "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Highworth
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Highworth "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Highworth
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Highworth A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "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) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Highworth
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Highworth Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Highworth
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Highworth Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Highworth
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Highworth "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Highworth
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Highworth "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Highworth
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Highworth You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Highworth
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Highworth If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Highworth
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Highworth To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Highworth
