Metheringham Village - Community site with information about churches and other village facilities, as well as photographs and history.
Sky Blue Retreats - Travel agents with villas, studios and apartments in Greece and the Canaries.
Heath Lane Kennels - Provides boarding and grooming services, dog food sales, prices, and links to Springer Spaniel information.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Metheringham If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Metheringham
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Metheringham "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Metheringham
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Metheringham The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Metheringham
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Metheringham "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) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Metheringham
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Metheringham 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Metheringham
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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Metheringham The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Metheringham
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Metheringham Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 Metheringham
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Metheringham "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Metheringham
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "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) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Metheringham Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Metheringham
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Metheringham Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley May you never leave your marriage alive. Metheringham
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Metheringham The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Metheringham
