Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens - Information about the history of this castle and gardens, with details of the wildlife, events listings, news, opening times and prices.
Bourne Borderers - Morris dancers who perform stick and handkerchief dances. Information on group, events and news.
The Salvation Army: Bourne Corps - Information on the group, its activities and events which includes a gospel choir and junior football team.
Mill House - Bed and breakfast accommodation set in over half an acre of spinney and gardens. Photographs, details of facilities and tariff.
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"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) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bourne "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bourne
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Bourne When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Bourne
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Bourne The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bourne
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bourne How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bourne
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 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Bourne Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Bourne
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Bourne We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Bourne
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Bourne Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 Bourne
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Bourne "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Bourne
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Bourne "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Bourne
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Bourne "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Bourne
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Bourne Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Bourne
