Welcome to Braunston - Information about Braunston, the centre of the UK canal system, and about the restoration of Raymond, the last wooden working narrowboat.
Foxhill Manor Nursing Home - A residential nursing care home providing respite and long term care in West Haddon.
Daventry On-Line - The Daventry Express, a local weekly newspaper covering the town and surrounding villages, including Long Buckby, Weedon, Woodford Halse and Braunston.
egArt - Sells items of art from local artists. Includes artist profiles, samples and contacts.
Reflexology by Avis - Offers alternative therapies at Woodford Halse. Explains reflexology and gives its history and contact details.
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Daventry Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Daventry
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Daventry After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent 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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Daventry
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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Daventry "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Daventry
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Daventry Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Daventry
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Daventry Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Daventry
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Daventry One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 Daventry
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Daventry It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Daventry
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Daventry "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Daventry
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Daventry The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Daventry
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Daventry Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Daventry
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Daventry Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Daventry
