Antiques of Ampthill - Lists 13 dealers in the town and provides links to the individual shops. Also includes a location map.
Cards By Carolyn - Offers a selection of handmade cards suitable for most occasions and wedding stationery.
Europlus - Offers new and used army tents, marquees, cookware and bedding. Includes location map.
Green Dragon Design Limited - Internet web design. Describes the company and its capabilities with FAQ and price guide.
Research Training and Consultancy Services - Irrigation and drainage consultants. Describes the consultants, their experience and the services they offer. Includes a list of recent projects.
Ampthill Antiques Emporium - Antique furniture, fittings and collectibles housed in a Victorian department store.
Facade Engineering - Subcontract architectural design and draughting. Describes the company's capabilities and services. Includes a list of recent projects.
Raj Gate - Indian Restaurant. Includes an illustrated description, its history and menus.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Business and Economy The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Business and Economy
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy
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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Business and Economy
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Business and Economy
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Business and Economy
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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Business and Economy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Business and Economy "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Business and Economy
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "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) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Business and Economy
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "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." Business and Economy
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Business and Economy "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Business and Economy
