Ron Hoggarth - High Bentham - Collection of photographs of High Bentham, plus a small amount of background information.
Riverside Caravan Park - A caravan park situated next to Ingleborough and the River Wenning. Offers static caravans and caters for tourers and campers.
Bentham Holiday Cottage - Self catering accommodation, near the Lake District and the Forest of Bowland. Site gives details of the cottage, a list of local facilities and nearby places, and an online enquiry form.
High Bentham Fire Station - An unofficial site with photographs of the fire engine, past crews, calls attended, the station plus a summary of ranks in the fire service.
Bentham Heritage Trail - Map of Heritage Trail route and description of local wildlife, plants and landuse.
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Bentham Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Bentham
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Bentham "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bentham
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Bentham "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Bentham
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Bentham "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Bentham
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Bentham All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Bentham
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Bentham In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Bentham
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Bentham What's new? Most of my wife. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Bentham
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bentham The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Bentham
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Bentham I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bentham
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Bentham Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Bentham
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bentham Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Bentham
