Ballacowell - In the village of Sulby, to the north of the island. Includes photos, contact information, and local information.
Cronk Moar - In Dalby on the west coast of the island. Includes photos and booking information.
Engelwood Lodge - Situated on a coastal road north of Douglas. Includes tariffs, contact information and photos.
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
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are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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cocaine.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Bed and Breakfast You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Man and wife make one fool. Bed and Breakfast
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Bed and Breakfast The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Bed and Breakfast
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 Bed and Breakfast Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bed and Breakfast
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
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University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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What's new? Most of my wife. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Bed and Breakfast
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
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-- Henry Ford Bed and Breakfast
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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-- Bob Edwards Bed and Breakfast
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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-- Fran Lebowitz When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Bed and Breakfast "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bed and Breakfast
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
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-- William Wordsworth Bed and Breakfast The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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-- Nancy Mitford Bed and Breakfast
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
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either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Bed and Breakfast
