The Greyfriar - Fullers pub, situated opposite Jane Austen's former home. Contains sample lunch and evening menus, photos, wine list and description of the beers.
Chawton House Library & Study Centre - Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600-1830, in Jane Austen's former home. Online texts, history and access.
Jane Austen's House - The Chawton house where Austen did most of her writing is now a museum.
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Chawton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 Nietzsche My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Chawton
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Chawton "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Chawton
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Chawton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Chawton
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Chawton "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Chawton
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chawton Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Chawton
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Chawton Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Chawton
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Chawton May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Chawton
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Chawton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Chawton
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Chawton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Chawton
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Chawton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Chawton
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Chawton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Chawton
