Boat Inn, The - An independent Free House by the canal in Stoke Bruerne.
Bruerne's Lock Restaurant - Gourmet canalside restaurant beside the Grand Union canal between Milton Keynes and Northampton
Stonehouse B&B - Located in Stoke Bruerne. Description of the facilities and photos of the village.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Stoke Bruerne "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Stoke Bruerne
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Stoke Bruerne Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Stoke Bruerne
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "... 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) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 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 Stoke Bruerne The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Stoke Bruerne
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Stoke Bruerne Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Stoke Bruerne
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Stoke Bruerne "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Stoke Bruerne
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Stoke Bruerne The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Stoke Bruerne
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Stoke Bruerne Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Stoke Bruerne
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Stoke Bruerne "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Stoke Bruerne
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Stoke Bruerne The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Stoke Bruerne
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Stoke Bruerne Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Stoke Bruerne
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Stoke Bruerne I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stoke Bruerne
