Spilsby Lincs - Features businesses and history of the town.
Northcote Heavy Horse Centre - Working sanctuary for retired and handicapped heavy horses. Details of individual horses, adoption scheme and opening times.
Spilsby Town - Community site with business, accommodation and events directory.
Halton Holegate Primary School - Information on school including history and curriculum with a newsletter and term dates.
Woodlands Fishery - Carp and match fishery. Information on lakes, facilities and news.
Gunby Hall - National Trust property page with information about opening times and facilities.
Monksthorpe Baptist Church - Historic chapel is now owned by the National Trust. History and information on future services.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Spilsby One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Spilsby
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Spilsby 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "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) Spilsby
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Spilsby Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Spilsby
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Spilsby Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Spilsby My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Spilsby
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Spilsby The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Spilsby
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Spilsby If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Spilsby
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Spilsby Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Spilsby
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Spilsby It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Spilsby
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Spilsby It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Spilsby
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Spilsby "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Spilsby
