Parish of Asfordby - Old photographs of this area and information about the parish, council and the "Asfordby Connection" project.
Amberley Gardens - Bed and breakfast, and self-catering accommodation. Photographs, tariff and location map.
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Asfordby "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Asfordby
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Asfordby Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "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) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Asfordby
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Asfordby The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Asfordby
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Asfordby I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asfordby
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Asfordby Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Asfordby
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Asfordby 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 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Asfordby
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Asfordby If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Asfordby
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Asfordby When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Asfordby
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Asfordby A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Asfordby
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) Asfordby "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Asfordby
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Asfordby Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Asfordby
