Thriplow People Carriers - Private Hire service offering 7 seater people carrier for hire in Cambridge area and to and from major airports and rail stations. Details of services.
Thriplow - Official pages provide details of the village history, the annual daffodil weekend in March and links to other local sites.
The Green Man - Village pub provides examples of its lunch and evening menus, as well as photo gallery
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Triplow I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Triplow
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Triplow "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Triplow
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Triplow I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Triplow
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Triplow Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Triplow
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Triplow Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve 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 blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Triplow
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Triplow blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Triplow
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Triplow "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Triplow
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Triplow "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "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 face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Triplow
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Triplow "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Triplow
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Triplow "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Triplow
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Triplow Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Triplow
