Newport Pagnell - Details of places to eat and drink in town as well as pictures and historical details of this ancient market town.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Newport Pagnell Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Newport Pagnell
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Newport Pagnell Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Newport Pagnell
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Newport Pagnell "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Newport Pagnell
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Newport Pagnell your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Newport Pagnell
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Newport Pagnell "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) 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Newport Pagnell
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 Newport Pagnell We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Newport Pagnell
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Newport Pagnell If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Newport Pagnell
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Newport Pagnell Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Newport Pagnell
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Newport Pagnell "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Newport Pagnell
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Newport Pagnell The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Newport Pagnell
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Newport Pagnell "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Newport Pagnell
