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Lockley Farm - Self-catering holiday accommodation. Facilities, pricing and contact details.
Digswell Lake Society - Owners and maintainers of Digswell Lake. History, activities, newsletter, events and contact details.
St Mary's Church - Service times, news, magasine, activities, staff and church contacts.
Welwyn & District Bowls Club - History, committee, fixtures, results, honours, social activities, news, directions to location and contact information.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Welwyn Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Welwyn Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Welwyn My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Welwyn Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Welwyn And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Welwyn Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Welwyn 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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Welwyn When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Welwyn It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Welwyn Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli 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. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Welwyn "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Welwyn When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Welwyn Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Welwyn Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Welwyn The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Welwyn Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Welwyn Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Welwyn Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Welwyn "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Welwyn Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Welwyn "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Welwyn
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