Burnsall Manor House - Hotel in the village of Burnsall. Prices, photos, booking form and local information.
The Red Lion Hotel - 16th century ferryman's inn, with a bar and restaurant. Menus, photos, prices, details of special functions, location map and enquiry form.
Wharfe View Farm - Family run bed and breakfast accommodation near to the centre of the village, with photographs, information about the village and the surrounding area and details of the facilities on offer.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Burnsall Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burnsall
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Burnsall Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Burnsall
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Burnsall The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Burnsall
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 Burnsall The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Burnsall
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Burnsall The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Burnsall
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Burnsall Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Burnsall
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Burnsall "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Burnsall
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Burnsall "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Burnsall
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 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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 Burnsall "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Burnsall
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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Burnsall Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Burnsall
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "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) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Burnsall Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Burnsall
