Peppercorn Cottage - Delicatessen that offers cheese, hampers, chocolates and confectionary. Information and photos of produce.
Softleys Restaurant - Offers en-suite accommodation, luncheons and A La Carte dining. [no smoking]
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Business and Economy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Business and Economy
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "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) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Business and Economy Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Business and Economy Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
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. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Business and Economy The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Business and Economy
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Business and Economy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Business and Economy
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Business and Economy I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Business and Economy
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Business and Economy 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) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Business and Economy
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "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 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Business and Economy If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Business and Economy
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Business and Economy "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Business and Economy Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A 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 Business and Economy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Business and Economy
