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Vale of Evesham Christian Centre - General information, activities, services, and events.
Evesham Methodist Church - Service times and worship details, mission statement, activities, history, message and contact.
Vale of Evesham Historical Society - Provides information about the society and details of its events. Also features an Evesham bibliography and a list of speakers willing to give talks to outside groups.
Evesham Baptist Church - Provides information about the church and its services, and also details of the various church groups and clubs.
All Saints' Evesham and St Egwin's Norton - Lists the people, events and activities of these parish churches plus gives staff details and contact information, photo guides and history, and describes the work of the Friends organisation.
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht 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 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Society and Culture 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 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Society and Culture CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Society and Culture "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Society and Culture There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty 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 "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 Society and Culture Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban "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) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Society and Culture Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Society and Culture
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