Market Bosworth Festival - Programme and information about this annual festival, which promotes rural arts and crafts in the community.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism
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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Travel and Tourism
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Travel and Tourism
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Travel and Tourism There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Travel and Tourism If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Travel and Tourism
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Travel and Tourism As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Travel and Tourism
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Travel and Tourism
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism
