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Bestboots Ltd - Specialists in Le Chameau and Rectiligne footwear, including boots for shooting, riding and walking. Online ordering. Wiltshire.
Coch-y-Bonddu Books - Fishing and sporting books. Game and angling fair schedule. Ordering information. Powys, Wales.
Country Ways - Scottish retailers in performance leisure, equestrian and country Wear, featuring Barbour, Musto and Toggi. Site includes news, horse events, forums and links. Aberdeen, Scotland.
Countryman Books - Scarce and out-of-print books about fishing, falconry, sporting, dogs, big game hunting, angling, fly-tying and horses. Also Cecil Aldin and Lionel Edwards books. East Yorkshire.
John Dickson and Son Ltd - Scottish gunmaker - Round Action design a specialty. Also retailer of fine country clothing, fishing tackle and guns by manufacturers such as Barbour, House of Hardy, Musto and many others.
Farlow's of Pall Mall - Stockist of fishing equipment, clothing and books. History, online catalogue, celebrity reviews, fishing articles, news, magazine and directory. Ordering information. London.
David A H Grayling - Dealer in scarce and out-of-print works on all country sports including hunting, falconry, beagling, coursing, shooting, stalking and fishing. Penrith.
The Owl Barn Gift Catalogue - Gifts and collectibles for those who love nature, and owls in particular. Part of the British Birds of Prey and Conservation Centre. Online ordering. Suffolk.
Robert Thorne Estate Supplies - Game and waterfowl, horse feed and equipment, pets, poultry and pigeons. Ferreting and netting supplies. Ordering information. Dumfriesshire.
Snowlines - Retailer of fishing and outdoor equipment, skiing and snowboarding. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tideline Books - A wide range of books on field sports including shooting, stalking, wildfowling, falconry, lurchers, terriers and ferrets. Also Brian Plummer books. Booklists, reviews and ordering information. North Wales.
Wrights Of Huntly - Traditional saddlers based in the north east of Scotland providing luxury leather accessories, shooting and equestrian goods. Specialising in stocking quality leather products and producing handmade products such as gunslips, cartridge bags, roesacks and gamebags.
Flintwood Countryside - Suppliers of sporting and field equipment and accessories for many country activities including shooting, equestrian, gamekeeper and ATV/4X4 plus books, clothing and footwear.
Countryside Audio and Visual - Videos, CDs and audio cassettes about horses, hounds, hunting and other country pursuits plus hunting songs and hunting horn music.
Elfinglen Traditional Trays and Screens - Original countryside-themed designs on traditional hand-made wooden decoupage trays, placemats, boxes and other gifts. Also offering handmade wooden screens.
Country Supplies - Offers extensive list of products for equestrian, fly fishing and shooting activities, plus general country clothing, supplies and gifts.
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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Country Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Country Sports I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... 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I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Country Sports The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Country Sports "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Country Sports It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Country Sports Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Country Sports A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Country Sports If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Country Sports "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel Country Sports Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Country Sports Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Country Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Country Sports I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Country Sports "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Country Sports Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Country Sports Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Country Sports Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. 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