London House Farm - Bed and breakfast and self catering cottage. Includes photos, information about the available facilities, maps and contacts.
Arncliffe Arms - Public house offering bed and breakfast accommodation and a full range of meals. Includes photographs, and information about the pub and the local area.
Glaisdale Online - Features information about the villages for tourists and residents, including details of forthcoming events and local attractions.
Museum of Victorian Science - Has a collection of various scientific and electrical instruments, as used in laboratories in Victorian times. Location, visiting details, photographs of some of the exhibits and contacts.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Glaisdale The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Glaisdale
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Glaisdale "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) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Glaisdale
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Glaisdale Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Glaisdale
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Glaisdale "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Glaisdale
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Glaisdale In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Glaisdale
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Glaisdale If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Glaisdale
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Glaisdale Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Glaisdale
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Glaisdale 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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Glaisdale
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Glaisdale We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Glaisdale
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Glaisdale The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Glaisdale
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Glaisdale "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Glaisdale
