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Tring District - Guide to the area with history, walks, events, pubs and items for sale.
Sandbrook Cottage - Offers sole occupancy bed and breakfast to a business person. Profile, facilities, local information, photo gallery and location maps.
Cholesbury House - Bed and breakfast sleeping two. Profile, facilities and local attractions with tariff and directions.
Old Tring - Several galleries of old photographs of the town with a brief history and local links.
Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum - Example of an 18-19th century taxodermy and nature collection, with educational facilities. Includes photos of galleries, visitor facilties, location and contacts.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Tring 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. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Tring We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Tring The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Tring "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Tring If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tring Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Tring A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Tring "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) 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 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Tring Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Tring Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Tring .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Tring "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Tring "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Tring The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Tring Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Tring Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Tring "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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Tring "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tring I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Tring "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Tring The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Tring
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