Cloughton Parish Council - Location of the parish, minutes of previous meetings, agenda and events.
The Hayburn Wyke Inn - 18th century coaching inn with accommodation available. Offers photographs of the hotel and the surroundings and gives details of its facilities.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Cloughton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cloughton
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Cloughton What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Cloughton
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Cloughton I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Cloughton
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Cloughton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cloughton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Cloughton "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ 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 Cloughton
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Cloughton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Cloughton
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Cloughton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Cloughton
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Cloughton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Cloughton
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Cloughton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Cloughton
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cloughton That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cloughton
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Cloughton The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Cloughton
