Stragglethorpe Hall - Tudor manor house between Lincoln and Grantham offers luxury bed and breakfast accommodation and can be hired for wedding receptions and small conferences. Photographs and details.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Stragglethorpe Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Stragglethorpe
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Stragglethorpe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Stragglethorpe
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Stragglethorpe "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Stragglethorpe
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Stragglethorpe He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Stragglethorpe
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Stragglethorpe I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Stragglethorpe
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Stragglethorpe Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Stragglethorpe
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Stragglethorpe He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stragglethorpe
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Stragglethorpe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Stragglethorpe
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Stragglethorpe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Stragglethorpe
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Stragglethorpe "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Stragglethorpe
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Stragglethorpe If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "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) Stragglethorpe
