Clowbeck House - Bed and breakfast. Photographs, details of facilities, price list and a history.
Croft Circuit - Motor racing track. Location map and a circuit map, plus the latest news and a list of events.
Croft CE Primary School - Includes background information about the school and pupils' projects.
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Croft-on-Tees To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Croft-on-Tees
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Croft-on-Tees Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Croft-on-Tees
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,
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My other wife is beautiful. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 Croft-on-Tees Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Croft-on-Tees
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Croft-on-Tees We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Croft-on-Tees
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Croft-on-Tees You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Croft-on-Tees
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Croft-on-Tees And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Croft-on-Tees
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Croft-on-Tees Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Croft-on-Tees
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Croft-on-Tees "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croft-on-Tees
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Croft-on-Tees Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Croft-on-Tees
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Croft-on-Tees "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Croft-on-Tees
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Croft-on-Tees Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Croft-on-Tees
