Barton upon Humber - Information about the town, both today and historically.
Barton upon Humber - Contains history, local and regional events, a picture gallery.
The Reeds Hotel - Luxury hotel and restaurant complex set amongst lakes on the Humber Estuary. Functions and conferences catered for. Adjacent to the Odyssey Foundation new age complex.
Central Surgery - Practice information, self-treatment advice and links to related health sites.
The Harrison Initiative - Information about this proposed visitor centre and exhibition, which plans to house a permanent memorial to the life and work of world-renowned horologist John Harrison.
Field View Day Nursery - Caring for Children from 0 to 8 years old. Information on facilities and policies.
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Barton on Humber There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Barton on Humber
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Barton on Humber The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Barton on Humber Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Barton on Humber
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Barton on Humber "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Barton on Humber
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Barton on Humber The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Barton on Humber
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Barton on Humber Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Barton on Humber
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Barton on Humber Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Barton on Humber
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Barton on Humber Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Barton on Humber
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Barton on Humber Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Barton on Humber
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Barton on Humber Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Barton on Humber
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Barton on Humber Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Barton on Humber
