Lowther Portal - The Lowther Portal gives you access to all of the Lowther sites - the business centre, forestry, parklands, driving trials and holiday lets.
Larch Cottage Nurseries - Melkinthorpe - Specialists in rare and unusual plants. Lists of many of the stocked plants. Postal order form, and 236 page catalogue in pdf format. Terraced restaurant offers freshly prepared Mediterranean cuisine.
Tobilane Designs - Askham - Design and manufacture traditional wooden toys, currently specializing in farms and castles. Examples of the products that can be bought from their toy shop.
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-- Steven Wright The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Business and Economy "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Business and Economy
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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Business and Economy You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Business and Economy
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Business and Economy Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Business and Economy "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Business and Economy
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Business and Economy He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Business and Economy
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Business and Economy A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Business and Economy
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Business and Economy
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Business and Economy
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Business and Economy
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "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 Business and Economy "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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