Huncote Rescue Center - Dog and cat sanctuary. Features news and information about the organisation, services, and volunteer opportunities.
Huncote County Primary School - Basic information from Blaby District Council of the village primary school on Denman Lane, offering a pre-school (play group), education up to 11 years old and has the village partnership library on grounds.
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "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) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Huncote "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Huncote
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Huncote "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Huncote
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Huncote Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Huncote
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Huncote If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Huncote
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Huncote 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Huncote
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Huncote It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Huncote
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Huncote Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Huncote
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Huncote the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Huncote
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Huncote "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Huncote
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Huncote "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Huncote
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Huncote Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Huncote
