Fingle Bridge Bed & Breakfast - Bed & breakfast accommodation situated in the village. Includes information about the accommodation available and contact details.
Brown's Hurdles - A family run business with a history back to the 19th century of making making traditional hazel hurdles. The site includes a history of making hurdles and how hurdles are made with contact details.
Notes on Wool Church - A description and historical record of the building, written by Alfred C. Fryer in 1898.
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Wool Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Wool
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Marriage is a rest period between romances. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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 Wool Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Wool
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Wool I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Wool
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Wool "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "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) Wool
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Wool For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Wool
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 Wool No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm 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
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blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Wool "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Wool
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Wool I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wool
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Wool If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Wool
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Wool The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Wool
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Wool Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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