John Wright Furniture - Craftsman undertaking commissions in a range of woods. Examples of work and contact details.
Greenford C of E Primary School - Serving a rural region of west Dorset based in Maiden Newton. Includes school pictures and school productions.
Maiden Newton Website - The community website for the villages of Maiden Newton and Frome Vauchurch in the Frome Valley.
Lancombe Country Cottages - Five individual cottages with laudry room and leisure centre. Details of facilities, prices and contact information.
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "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) Maiden Newton "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Maiden Newton
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Maiden Newton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Maiden Newton
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Maiden Newton 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Maiden Newton
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Maiden Newton Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Maiden Newton
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maiden Newton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Maiden Newton
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Maiden Newton Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Maiden Newton
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Maiden Newton Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Maiden Newton
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Maiden Newton True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Maiden Newton
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Maiden Newton You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Maiden Newton
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maiden Newton After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Maiden Newton
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Maiden Newton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Maiden Newton
