Shannon Grove Guesthouse - Details of the Athlunkard location, rooms, with photos, rates and some local attractions.
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Athlunkard "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Athlunkard
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University 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 Athlunkard "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Athlunkard
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Athlunkard I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Athlunkard
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Athlunkard When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Athlunkard
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Athlunkard NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Athlunkard
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Athlunkard I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Athlunkard
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Athlunkard The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Athlunkard
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Athlunkard Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Athlunkard
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 Athlunkard Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Athlunkard
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Athlunkard Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Athlunkard
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "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' "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Athlunkard "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Athlunkard
