Hamerton Zoological Park - Opened as a conservation sanctuary in 1990 within easy reach in the A1 and the A14. Hamerton's 15 acres of parkland provide a safe home for a fascinating array of creatures from around the world.
Houghton Mill (National Trust) - The most important of the very few remaining mills on the River Ouse. In 1999 the National Trust completed a major project to reinstate one of the mill wheels, and install a turbine to generate electricity.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 Travel and Tourism "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Travel and Tourism We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Travel and Tourism
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 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.
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel and Tourism
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Travel and Tourism Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Travel and Tourism Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Travel and Tourism Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travel and Tourism
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "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) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Travel and Tourism "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Travel and Tourism
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Travel and Tourism "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "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) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
