The Swan Public House - Typical English pub with a selection of real ales, voted National CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2003. Full list of beers, ciders and ales together with food details and information about the village.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Little Totham "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Little Totham
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Little Totham Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Little Totham
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Little Totham blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Little Totham
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Little Totham blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Little Totham
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Little Totham Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Little Totham
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Little Totham "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Little Totham
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Little Totham The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Little Totham
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Little Totham The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Little Totham
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Little Totham Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Little Totham
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Little Totham You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Little Totham
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Little Totham I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Little Totham
