Dorset Holiday Cottage - Describes accommodation at Acorn Cottage surrounded by National Trust land and 10 mins walk from the beach at Seatown. Includes tariff and booking form.
Chideock Web Site - A community web site. The site includes links to local businesses, Parish Council information, local history, a picture gallery, guest book and weather forecasts. Also includes a link to the Parish Magazine.
The George Inn - Situated in the heart of the West Dorset heritage coastline. Includes local information and pictures.
Ash Cottage - Part of a converted barn complex and offering self-catering holiday accommodation. Details of availablity and prices with contact information.
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Chideock We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Chideock
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "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 Chideock "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) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Chideock
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Chideock Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Chideock
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "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" Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Chideock the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Chideock
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Chideock I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Chideock
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Chideock "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Chideock
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Chideock When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Chideock
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chideock Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Chideock
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Chideock "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Chideock
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 Chideock When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 Chideock
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Chideock The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Chideock
