The Benington Lordship - Castle with gardens. Site has history, opening dates, entrance fees and layouts of the gardens.
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The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "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) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Benington The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Benington
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Benington Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Benington
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Benington Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Benington
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Benington "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Benington
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Benington "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Benington
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Benington Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Benington
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Benington A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Benington
"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) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Benington Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Benington
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Benington "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Benington
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Benington I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Benington
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Benington The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Benington
