Dorset Coast Caravans - Information about the Creek Caravan Site with photographs, directions and contact details.
Coast Path Cottage - Self catering holiday accommodation in a 1920's wooden bungalow. Provides information about prices and facilities.
The Flat: The Creek - Self-contained flat available for holiday hire with sea views to Portland. Prices and booking information.
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Ringstead If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Ringstead
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ringstead blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Ringstead
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ringstead The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Ringstead
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Ringstead Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Ringstead
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ringstead "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ringstead
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Ringstead We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Ringstead
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Ringstead A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Ringstead
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 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
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something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Ringstead
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Ringstead You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Ringstead
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Ringstead A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ringstead
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Ringstead "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Ringstead
