Graham Clarke - Artist, author and humorist. Includes biography, gallery and ordering information.
Boughton Monchelsea Place - Privately owned 16th century manor house available for weddings, corporate events and film shoots. Includes facilities, fees, catering, and diary of events open to the public.
Boughton Monchelsea Parish Council - Contains list of councillors and online access to Parish Council documents. Information on village clubs, organisations and news, and a history of the village.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boughton Monchelsea Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Boughton Monchelsea
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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "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) Boughton Monchelsea "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Boughton Monchelsea
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Boughton Monchelsea If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Boughton Monchelsea
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Boughton Monchelsea "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Boughton Monchelsea
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Boughton Monchelsea "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Boughton Monchelsea
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Boughton Monchelsea Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Boughton Monchelsea
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Boughton Monchelsea Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Boughton Monchelsea
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Boughton Monchelsea Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Boughton Monchelsea
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Boughton Monchelsea "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Boughton Monchelsea
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boughton Monchelsea "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Boughton Monchelsea
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Boughton Monchelsea Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Boughton Monchelsea
