Clitherbecks Farm - 18th century stone built farmhouse, offering holiday accommodation, in Danby, North Yorkshire. Site includes tourist information for the area and contact details.
Danby Primary School - Includes photographs, class work and details of past events.
Camphill Botton Village - A therapeutic community for adults with learning disabilities. Includes a history and description of their activities, a virtual tour, and contact details.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Danby I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Danby
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Danby Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Danby
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Danby Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Danby
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Danby I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Danby
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Danby Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Danby
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Danby Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Danby
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Danby The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Danby
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Danby There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Danby
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Danby Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Danby
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Danby I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Danby
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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Danby A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Danby
