Helmsley Walled Garden - Five acre walled working kitchen garden under the walls of Helmsley Castle. Details of history, restorations, opening times and shop.
Duncombe Park - Country house set in several hundred acres of parkland. Information for visitors and teachers, and details of weddings and corporate hospitality.
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Travel and Tourism It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Travel and Tourism
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "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) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Travel and Tourism
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Travel and Tourism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Travel and Tourism
"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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Travel and Tourism Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Travel and Tourism
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Travel and Tourism We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Travel and Tourism
