Burton Upon Stather - Parish Council details, local tourist information and advertising for the village. Incorporates the hamlets of Normanby and Thealby.
Hypnotherapy Equipment - Hypnotherapy equipment supplied, all professional products, spiral, biofeedback monitors, sound equipment to make good quality tapes, eliminate background noise.
The Ferry House - Riverside pub giving overview of facilities, events guide and location information.
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Burton upon Stather Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Burton upon Stather
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Burton upon Stather Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Burton upon Stather
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Burton upon Stather Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Burton upon Stather
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Burton upon Stather "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Burton upon Stather
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Burton upon Stather "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Burton upon Stather
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Burton upon Stather No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Burton upon Stather
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Burton upon Stather A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Burton upon Stather
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burton upon Stather For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Burton upon Stather
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Burton upon Stather Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Burton upon Stather
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Burton upon Stather "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Burton upon Stather
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Burton upon Stather "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Burton upon Stather
