Hamou's Farm Zbecno - Folk estate dating from the 16th century. Contains history, contact details, an image gallery, and events program.
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-- Robert Louis Stevenson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Zbecno We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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." ( Zbecno
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giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Zbecno "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Zbecno
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Zbecno If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Zbecno
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Zbecno
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Zbecno The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Zbecno
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Zbecno blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Zbecno
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Zbecno May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Zbecno
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Zbecno Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Zbecno
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Zbecno With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Zbecno
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Zbecno Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Zbecno
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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' For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Zbecno As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Zbecno
