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Oldstead Grange - Bed and Breakfast accommodation near Byland Abbey. Includes a location map, enquiry form, special offers and photos of the property.
Newburgh House - 5 diamond guest house restored in 2001. Includes online booking, guide to accommodation and information about the surroundign area.
Coxwold - Information about the village, its amenities and attractions, along with a history.
Shandy Hall - Laurence Sterne's home at the time he wrote Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, now a museum. Includes contact info, photos and details of accommodation in Wolfson Cottage.
The Wombwell Arms - Free house inn with restaurant. Provides menu, wine list and details of bed and breakfast accommodation.
Coxwold Craft Fair - Links to exhibitors and dates of all fairs held at Coxwold Village Hall.
Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Coxwold You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Coxwold Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Coxwold Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Coxwold I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer 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 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Coxwold The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Coxwold "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Coxwold Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Coxwold Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Coxwold Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Coxwold "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Coxwold A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Coxwold If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Coxwold Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Coxwold "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Coxwold To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Coxwold Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Coxwold How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Coxwold "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Coxwold "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Coxwold Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Coxwold "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Coxwold
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