Wyre Piddle Parish Council - Includes contact details for councillors, together with the agenda for the next meeting, and the previous meeting's minutes.
Arbour House - Non-smoking accommodation. Site gives details and photos of the facilities.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Wyre Piddle Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wyre Piddle
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "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) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Wyre Piddle "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Wyre Piddle
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Wyre Piddle Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Wyre Piddle
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Wyre Piddle Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "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 Wyre Piddle
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Wyre Piddle Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Wyre Piddle
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Wyre Piddle Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wyre Piddle
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Wyre Piddle Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Wyre Piddle
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Wyre Piddle Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Wyre Piddle
"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) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Wyre Piddle What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Wyre Piddle
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Wyre Piddle I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Wyre Piddle
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wyre Piddle If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado May you never leave your marriage alive. Wyre Piddle
