Dorwest Herbs - Traditional formulas for relief of specific symptoms. Also offers herbal shampoos and oils.
Shipton Gorge - Overview of the village and its parish with information for visitors.
The New Inn - A village pub with restaurant facilities. Includes history and photographs.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Shipton Gorge Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Shipton Gorge
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Shipton Gorge Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Shipton Gorge
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Shipton Gorge Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shipton Gorge
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shipton Gorge It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Shipton Gorge
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Shipton Gorge I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Shipton Gorge
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Shipton Gorge "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) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Shipton Gorge
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Shipton Gorge As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Shipton Gorge
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Shipton Gorge Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Shipton Gorge
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Shipton Gorge An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Shipton Gorge
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Shipton Gorge Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Shipton Gorge
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Shipton Gorge "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Shipton Gorge
