Hertfordshire Museums - Information about museums and exhibitions in Hertfordshire, including current events, admission times, access and charges.
Offley Place - A 17th century country house set in its own grounds, which hosts weddings and conferences, while offering bed and breakfast or full hotel service close to Luton and Hitchin.
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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel and Tourism
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Travel and Tourism Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Travel and Tourism
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Travel and Tourism
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Travel and Tourism
"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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "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..." ( Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Travel and Tourism "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
