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Potton Windows - Describes the company's products and history with photographs.
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Potton Brewery - Describes its beers and includes a clickable pub location map. [Uses Flash]
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-- Miriam Robbins "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Business and Economy
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Business and Economy "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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." Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Business and Economy The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Business and Economy Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Business and Economy
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Business and Economy
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Business and Economy Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Business and Economy
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Business and Economy I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Business and Economy
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Business and Economy A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy