Danny Cottage - A 16th century thatched cottage located in the village. Includes availability, the area, photographs and contact details.
Alfriston, Smuggling and Ghosts - A reference guide including photographs, historic details, services, views and local amenities.
The English Wine Centre - Shop amd museum. Profile, catalogue and information about wine tastings and special offers.
Drusillas Zoo Park - A small zoo at Alfriston, with animals in naturalistic settings and other attractions for children. Visitor information.
Donald Brown - Highland piper playing traditional Scottish or Irish tunes available for functions in Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Profile, biography and services.
Much Ado Books - Features old, rare, and out-of-print books. Profile and stock list.
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Alfriston "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Alfriston
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Alfriston Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Alfriston
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Alfriston Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Alfriston
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Alfriston He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Alfriston
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Alfriston There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Alfriston
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Alfriston Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Alfriston
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Alfriston Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Alfriston
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Alfriston Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Alfriston
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Alfriston All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Alfriston
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Alfriston It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Alfriston
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Alfriston A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Alfriston
