Amberley Parochial School - An aided Church of England school. Includes a guest book, diary, and vacancies.
Amberley Inn - Offers short breaks for walking holidays.
Amberley Village - Local community web site covering all aspects of village life, from history to business in the area.
Dunkirk Manor - Situated at Amberley, offering accommodation, features picture tour of the 17th Century Manor House and grounds.
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Amberley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Amberley
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Amberley "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Amberley
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Amberley The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Amberley
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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 Amberley I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Amberley
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Amberley "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Amberley
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Amberley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Amberley
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Amberley When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Amberley
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Amberley The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Amberley
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Amberley Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Amberley
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Amberley "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Amberley
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) May you never leave your marriage alive. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Amberley Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Amberley
