The Hellfire Caves - West Wycombe. Once a haunt of the Hellfire club, the caves were dug by hand in the 1700's. Visitor and corporate hire information.
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-- Aesop I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Travel and Tourism
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Travel and Tourism
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Travel and Tourism People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Travel and Tourism "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Travel and Tourism
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Travel and Tourism We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Travel and Tourism In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
