Monk Park Farm - Open farm and visitor centre. Includes plan of the farm, list of animals, prices and opening times.
Bagby Aero Club - Society of pilots based at the airfield. Includes news and features.
Bagby Airfield - Approach and landing details for this grass strip with a little history thrown in.
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Bagby Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Bagby
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Bagby Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Bagby
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Bagby Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Bagby
"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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Bagby Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Bagby
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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Bagby The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Bagby
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Bagby To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Bagby
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Bagby Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Bagby
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Bagby University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Bagby
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Bagby The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Bagby
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Bagby Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Bagby
May you never leave your marriage alive. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Bagby Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Bagby
