The Shoulder Of Mutton Inn - 200-year-old traditional English Inn offering bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes photographs, details of the facilities and information about the surrounding area.
Church of St Peter & St Felix - Includes a searchable register of graves, information about the church and a brief history.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kirby Hill There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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write better.
- A. J. Liebling "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kirby Hill Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Kirby Hill
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Kirby Hill A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Kirby Hill
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
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is.
-- Arnold Bennett Kirby Hill 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.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Kirby Hill Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "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) Kirby Hill
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Kirby Hill I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "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 Kirby Hill
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Kirby Hill Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Kirby Hill
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Kirby Hill Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Kirby Hill
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Kirby Hill The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Kirby Hill
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Kirby Hill Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Kirby Hill
