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Thurlaston - the Knowhere Guide - Informal information about Thurlaston, supplied by locals.
Thurlaston - Information about the village, local businesses and the carnival.
Ashwood Logs - Suppliers of hardwoord Logs, photographs, prices and contact details.
Poacher's Bistro - Menus and wine list with prices, photographs and events information.
Thurlaston JFC - Football club, league tables and message board.
Normanton Shooting Ground - Centre for the regular and novice clay shooter, also includes archery and course fishing matches. Fixture list and prices.
Thurlaston Online - News and information about this village, including community groups, businesses, activities and local government.
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Thurlaston "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Thurlaston "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Thurlaston I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Thurlaston What's new? Most of my wife. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Thurlaston Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Thurlaston Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Thurlaston "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Thurlaston "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Thurlaston "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Thurlaston "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Thurlaston A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Thurlaston Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Thurlaston Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Thurlaston I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Thurlaston I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Thurlaston We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Thurlaston Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Thurlaston People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Thurlaston Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Thurlaston A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Thurlaston It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr 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 "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) Thurlaston
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