Kington - Lists of things to see and do in and around the town.
Kington Festival - Annual summer festival, with events spread over several months. Site includes background information, a diary of events, and details of the gala day.
Kington Golf Club - Includes information about the course and club facilities, together with membership details and information for visiting societies.
Kington Tourist Information Centre - Provides information about the town and its history, accommodation listings, details of leisure activities, and a list of leaflets available by post.
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Kington "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Kington
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Kington A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Kington
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kington To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Kington
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Kington Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kington
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Kington He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Kington
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Kington The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Kington
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Kington Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Kington
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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 Kington Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Kington
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Kington Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Kington
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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Kington "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Kington
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Kington "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Kington
