The Jackal - Public House. Describes the pub and includes opening times, sample menus and location map.
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Thurleigh Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Thurleigh
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Thurleigh The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Thurleigh
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Thurleigh Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Thurleigh
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thurleigh The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Thurleigh
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Thurleigh I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Thurleigh
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Thurleigh In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Thurleigh
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Thurleigh "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Thurleigh
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Thurleigh Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Thurleigh
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Thurleigh "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Thurleigh
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thurleigh In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Thurleigh
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Thurleigh We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Thurleigh
