Scaife Hall Farm - Guest accommodation on a working farm, with information about the facilities and the local area, photographs, location map and a feedback form.
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Blubberhouses "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Blubberhouses
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Blubberhouses Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 Blubberhouses I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Blubberhouses To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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-- Abbie M. Dale Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Blubberhouses
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Blubberhouses What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Blubberhouses
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blubberhouses
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Blubberhouses "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Blubberhouses
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Blubberhouses ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blubberhouses
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Blubberhouses University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blubberhouses
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Blubberhouses Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blubberhouses
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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