Swarthmoor Hall - Offers information on the Quakers retreat and details of self catering and catered visits there.
Laurel and Hardy Museum - The Official Laurel and Hardy Museum Site, offering photos, filmography and details of the museum.
Gleaston Water Mill - Provides a gallery, history and information on the attractions cafe and local area.
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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-- Tom Robbins Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
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-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Travel and Tourism
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
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-- Russell Baker then the world 's mine oyster
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-- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Travel and Tourism
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Travel and Tourism Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Travel and Tourism "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Travel and Tourism
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism
