Pershore Dance Festival - Information about the festival, and it competitive events. Also reviews of previous years.
Pershore Evangelical Church - Reformed Baptist Church. Includes details of services and other events, together with a history and information about their beliefs.
Pershore Abbey - Details of services, history of the abbey, and information about the regular concerts held there.
This is Pershore - News, sport and local information, from the Evesham Journal.
Pershore Health Centre - Doctor and practice information, including surgery times and clinic details.
The Pershore Directory - Directory of business, accommodation, clubs and community groups.
Visit Pershore - Provides information for visitors to Pershore and surrounding area. Includes accommodation and events listings.
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Pershore Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Pershore
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Pershore If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Pershore
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Pershore Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Pershore
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Pershore During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Pershore
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Pershore "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Pershore
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "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." God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Pershore You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Pershore
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 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Pershore "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) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Pershore
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Pershore My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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 Pershore
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Pershore You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Pershore
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Pershore A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Pershore
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pershore Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Pershore
