The Roasted Pepper - Contemporary-style continental restaurant and bar, with menus, details of forthcoming events and a feedback form.
Husthwaite Village - History, photographs and minutes from parish council meetings.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Husthwaite When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Husthwaite
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Husthwaite We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Husthwaite
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Husthwaite True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Husthwaite
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Husthwaite "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Husthwaite
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Husthwaite "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Husthwaite
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Husthwaite Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Husthwaite
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Husthwaite Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Husthwaite
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Husthwaite "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Husthwaite
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Husthwaite Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Husthwaite
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Husthwaite A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Husthwaite
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Husthwaite English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Husthwaite