Ashton-under-Hill - Community site. Includes news and events, details of village organizations, and an archive of newsletters and parish magazines.
Bredon Hill Middle School - Details of the school's curriculum and departments, information for parents, school clubs and sports, and selected articles from the school newsletter.
The Star Inn - Opening times, together with details and pictures of the Ramblers' Bar and Restaurant.
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ashton-under-Hill I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Ashton-under-Hill
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Ashton-under-Hill I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Ashton-under-Hill
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Ashton-under-Hill Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Ashton-under-Hill
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Ashton-under-Hill Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ashton-under-Hill
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Ashton-under-Hill People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Ashton-under-Hill
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Ashton-under-Hill Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Ashton-under-Hill
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Ashton-under-Hill blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Ashton-under-Hill
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ashton-under-Hill Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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) Ashton-under-Hill
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Ashton-under-Hill "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Ashton-under-Hill
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ashton-under-Hill Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ashton-under-Hill
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "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" Ashton-under-Hill Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Ashton-under-Hill
