Black Horse Cottage - Renovated 18th-century self catering cottage. Photographs of the property and area and full pricing and booking information.
Giggleswick School - Private secondary boardin school. Includes message from headmaster and contacts.
Saint Alkelda Parish Church - Provides general information about the church, priest in charge, history, special features of the building, history of its patron saint and a statement about parish life.
Yorkshire Dales Field Centre - Offers a variety of courses including geology, flora, dry- stone walling and environmental science for individuals or small groups. Accommodation is available.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Giggleswick For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Giggleswick
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giggleswick She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Giggleswick
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Giggleswick "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Giggleswick
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Giggleswick "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Giggleswick
"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 "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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Giggleswick Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Giggleswick
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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Giggleswick Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Giggleswick
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giggleswick The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Giggleswick
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Giggleswick I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Giggleswick
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Giggleswick You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giggleswick
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Giggleswick Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Giggleswick
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Giggleswick Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Giggleswick
