Farran House - Details of accommodation in an historic manor house. Includes location, activities in the area plus history of the house.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Farran "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Farran
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Farran Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Farran
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Farran Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "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) Farran
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Farran See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Farran
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Farran Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Farran
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Farran We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Farran
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. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Farran "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Farran
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Farran I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Farran
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Farran Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Farran
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Farran One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Farran
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) 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 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Farran "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) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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
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