Brakes Coppice Park - A camp site near Hastings and Battle. Countryside surrounds the site and a small fishing lake is also present.
"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) 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 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Travel and Tourism A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Travel and Tourism Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Travel and Tourism Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Travel and Tourism Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Travel and Tourism
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Travel and Tourism I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Travel and Tourism Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Travel and Tourism
