Burrington - Describes this village and its history with Parish Council information and local accommodation and business.
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Burrington If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Burrington
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Burrington Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Burrington
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Burrington I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Burrington
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Burrington The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Burrington
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Burrington "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Burrington
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Burrington Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull 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 Burrington
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Burrington Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Burrington
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Burrington "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Burrington
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "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) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Burrington If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Burrington
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Burrington Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Burrington
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Burrington If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Burrington
