Wicken Village - Information about the village for residents and visitors. Includes history, accommodation, events, picture gallery and location details.
Wicken Windmill - One of the only surviving 12-sided smock mills. Details of the history, restoration, open days and location.
Spinney Abbey - Bed and breakfast accommodation, three-quarters of a mile west of the village, just off the A1123. Details include photos, tariff, history of the building and stories about the local ghost.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wicken Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Wicken
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Wicken "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Wicken
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Wicken Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Wicken
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Wicken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Wicken
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Wicken I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Wicken
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.
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Wicken I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wicken
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Wicken Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Wicken
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Wicken "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Wicken
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Wicken I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Wicken
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Wicken Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Wicken
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Wicken Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Wicken
