Lockley Farm - The Shire Barn and The Gamekeeper's Lodge are self-catering holiday accommodation in the rural setting of Welwyn.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Accommodation Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Accommodation
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "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) Accommodation "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) "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) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Accommodation
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Accommodation The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Accommodation
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Accommodation
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Accommodation 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Accommodation
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. 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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Accommodation
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Accommodation Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Accommodation
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Accommodation "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Accommodation
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Accommodation "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Accommodation
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Accommodation The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Accommodation
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Accommodation "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
