Fox and Rabbit Inn - Traditional country pub serving food and real ale, located near Lockton. Map, menu and photographs.
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Levisham Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Levisham
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Levisham We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Levisham
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Levisham "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Levisham
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Levisham Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Levisham
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Levisham I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Levisham
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Levisham Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Levisham
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Levisham In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 Levisham
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Levisham When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Levisham
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Levisham Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Levisham
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Levisham "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Levisham
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "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) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Levisham Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Levisham
