Broughton House Gallery. - Exhibitions by international artists, located in the heart of Cambridge the University City
Anglesey Abbey - National Trust property with outstanding gardens, house containing works of art and a working water mill.
Sacrewell Farm & Country Centre - Sacrewell is a working farm open to the public all year round. Attractions include a working mill, mill gardens, farm trails and animals. School parties, families, campers and caravanners are welcome.
Audley End House and Gardens - One of the most significant Jacobean houses in England. Historic picture collection and furniture. Extensive grounds, lake, river and ornamental gardens. (Actually in Essex but close to Cambs border).
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Attractions A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Attractions
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Attractions We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Attractions
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Attractions "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Attractions
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Attractions He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Attractions
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Attractions Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Attractions
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Attractions "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Attractions
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Attractions The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Attractions
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Attractions Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Attractions
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Attractions The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Attractions
"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) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Attractions My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Attractions We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Attractions
