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Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - Heritage railway line running from Embsay to near Bolton Abbey. Map, timetables, history, news, stock list and photographs.
Embsay Station Bookshop - Online bookshop based out of Embsay station.
Rockwood House - Offers en suite bed and breakfast accommodation, with photographs, a description, prices and local information.
Brooksbank Industries - Supplies textile machinery accessories including combing, spinning aprons, noil and brushes. Features a list of available products, profile of the company and contacts.
Bondcroft Farm - Working sheep and beef farm, which also breeds and trains sheepdogs. Includes comments from guests and an enquiry form.
St Mary's Church - Anglican church, offering service times, events, church history and organ appeal.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Embsay Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 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 Embsay Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Embsay Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Embsay Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Embsay In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Embsay I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "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) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Embsay "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Embsay When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Embsay The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Embsay There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embsay I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Embsay Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Embsay Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Embsay >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Embsay 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Embsay "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Embsay Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Embsay Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Embsay I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Embsay "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Embsay My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Embsay
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