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Mangapps Farm Railway Museum - Privately owned working museum established on a 390 acre farm. It features a ¾ mile standard gauge passenger carrying line, with restored stations, signal boxes and ancillary equipment removed from various sites throughout East Anglia.
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Travel and Tourism Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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-- George Santayana He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Travel and Tourism I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Travel and Tourism Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Travel and Tourism
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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
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-- Jonathan S. Haas I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Travel and Tourism The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Travel and Tourism
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Travel and Tourism
What's new? Most of my wife. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Travel and Tourism Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
