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Ashdon House of Children - Baby care unit and Day Nursery for the Cambridge, Saffron Walden and Haverhill region. Introduction, aims, programme and enrolment form.
Ashdon Windmill Trust Ltd - Registered charity working for the restoration and preservation of the windmill. Update, history, future and photos.
Beeches Nursery - Retail nursery with mail order offering catalogue of plants, trees and shrubs for sale. List of items, photos and detailed information about the village and its history.
Marpa House Retreat Centre - Tibetan retreat centre dedicated to Buddhist practice. Overview, visitors, prices, staff, events, retreats, photos and history.
Swan Family and Ashdon in Essex - Information and history of the village and village church with photos. Also history of the Swan family.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Ashdon "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Ashdon The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Ashdon We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Ashdon An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Ashdon blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Ashdon blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ashdon I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Ashdon "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Ashdon Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Ashdon 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Ashdon I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Ashdon Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Ashdon If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ashdon The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Ashdon People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Ashdon Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Ashdon Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Ashdon Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Ashdon Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Ashdon I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Ashdon "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Ashdon
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