Old Manor Caravan Park - Tents and motorhomes also welcomed. Profile, facilities and photo gallery with booking information and prices.
Grafham Water Fly Fishers Association - Association that fishes the waters for rainbow and brown trout. Includes pictures of trophy fish, a map, permit information, and descriptions of flies.
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Grafham Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Grafham
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Grafham If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Grafham
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th 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. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Grafham I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Grafham
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Grafham The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Grafham
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Grafham He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Grafham
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Grafham He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Grafham
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Grafham That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Grafham
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Grafham I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Grafham
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Grafham "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Grafham
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Grafham It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Grafham
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Grafham I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "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) Grafham
