The Manor Hotel - Describes the setting of this hotel at West Bexington. Includes restaurant menu, tariff, location and contact details.
Langton Herring - A mostly pictorial view of life in a west Dorset village.
Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens Online Catalogue - Details the special range of plants available including Palms, Bamboos and Tree Ferns plus many other rare plants from as far afield as South Africa, New Zealand and China.
Abbotsbury Software Ltd - Provides solutions for business. Also trades as West Dorset Internet.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Abbotsbury Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abbotsbury
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Abbotsbury "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Abbotsbury
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Abbotsbury I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Abbotsbury
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Abbotsbury "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Abbotsbury
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abbotsbury Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Abbotsbury
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Abbotsbury "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Abbotsbury
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Abbotsbury Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Abbotsbury
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Abbotsbury blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abbotsbury
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Abbotsbury Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Abbotsbury
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Abbotsbury "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Abbotsbury
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Abbotsbury The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Abbotsbury
