McConville Bowden - Estate agent. Includes illustrated sale list and advocates living in the town and surrounding area.
Steve Latham and Co - Residential estate agent. Offers an illustrated portfolio of properties for sale.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Property The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Property
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Property The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Property
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Property
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Property
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Property "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Property
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Property Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Property
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Property blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Property
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Property "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Property Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Property
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Property What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Property
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Property The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Property
