Bredon Village Hall - Details about how to hire the halls for functions, and what facilities are available.
Bredon Women's Institute - Includes details of their program, reports on past events, and a short history of the branch.
The Moretons Vacation Houses - Self-catering holiday accommodation with an indoor swimming pool and children's play house. The main farm house, converted out-buildings, and cottages are available to rent. Details and photographs are given for each.
Bredon's Norton Village - Community Site. Includes village newsletter, social committee and village hall contacts, and a detailed map of the village.
Gym and Tonic - Health and fitness club. Site includes photographs and details of the membership packages and lifestyle treatments which are available. [Requires Java]
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Bredon If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Bredon
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bredon If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Bredon
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bredon Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Bredon
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Bredon Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Bredon
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Bredon Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Bredon
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Bredon Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bredon
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Bredon He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Bredon
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Bredon "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Bredon
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Bredon I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Bredon
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Bredon The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bredon
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Bredon 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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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) Bredon
