Shallowdale House - Photographs and descriptions of the accommodation, garden, and the local area. Includes contact details.
Ampleforth College - The Benedictine Community of Ampleforth Abbey, together with the lay staff, runs schools for boys aged 8 to 18 as a major part of the Community's work.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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 Ampleforth "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ampleforth
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 Ampleforth Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Ampleforth
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Ampleforth "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ampleforth
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Ampleforth Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ampleforth
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Ampleforth Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "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) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Ampleforth
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ampleforth To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Ampleforth
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Ampleforth When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Ampleforth
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Ampleforth "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Ampleforth
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ampleforth Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ampleforth
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ampleforth I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ampleforth
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Ampleforth Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Ampleforth
