A Bit Of Local: Hurn - Description of the village with reference to its historical context.
Hurn Court School OBA - Old Boys Association of former school with photo archive, news of events and message board.
Alice in Wonderland Theme Park - Based on Lewis Carroll's story. Includes booking information for childrens birthday parties and games section.
Bournemouth Aviation Museum - Charitable museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public operational examples of historic military jets via the museum and airshows. Features guided tour with photographs.
Avon Causeway Hotel - Developed on the site of the former railway station and features a dining facility within a Pullman coach. Directions, contact information and photographs.
GolfMark - Custom golf club fitting and making, gifts and accessories, tuition, repairs, hire and sales.
Mount Pleasant Caravan and Camping Park - Situated in Matcham, they provide information on their facilities, together with a tariff, a location map and a booking form.
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Hurn The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Hurn
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Hurn "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Hurn
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "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 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Hurn They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Hurn
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Hurn "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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Hurn
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hurn There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Hurn
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Hurn A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Hurn
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hurn "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Hurn
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Hurn Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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 Hurn
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Hurn Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Hurn
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Hurn I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Hurn
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Hurn We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Hurn
