Alvechurch Baptist Church - Provides details of the church activities and beliefs, plus contact information.
Alvechurch Parish Council - Details of the council, its responsibilities and powers. Also includes a business directory, and parish news.
Parish Church of St Laurence - Includes service details, church history, a monthly magazine, and information about church organisations.
Crown Meadow First School - Information about the school curriculum, policies, and other activities. Also school newsletters (in PDF), an events calendar, a virtual tour, and photographs of pupils' work.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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. "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) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Alvechurch English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Alvechurch
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Alvechurch Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Alvechurch
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Alvechurch Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Alvechurch
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Alvechurch Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Alvechurch
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Alvechurch Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Alvechurch
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alvechurch I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Alvechurch
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Alvechurch Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Alvechurch
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Alvechurch A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Alvechurch
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Alvechurch Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Alvechurch
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Alvechurch A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Alvechurch
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Alvechurch 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Alvechurch
