The Ship Inn - Bed and breakfast accommodation in a 18th century Dorset coaching house. Information includes accommodation and booking details, restaurant menu and wine list and contact details.
The Parish of West Stour - Provides a brief description and historical data, including census and links to old maps.
Jane Barkes - Homeopathic clinician. Provides details of practice including a photograph.
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-- Bernard Baruch This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils West Stour
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- Octavio Paz The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 West Stour
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb West Stour When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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-- Richard P. Adler West Stour
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
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-- English Proverb West Stour
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg West Stour 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 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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson West Stour
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B West Stour My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde West Stour When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf West Stour
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-- C. Stacey Woods Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler West Stour "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus West Stour
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone West Stour "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) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard West Stour
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) West Stour "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler West Stour
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller West Stour Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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