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Nene Valley Railway Books - Transport related publications, both new and secondhand including shipping, railways, canals, aviation, and buses. Includes catalogue and shop opening times.
Thomas Truck Training - Forklift operator training. AITT/ITSSAR standard.
Thrapston Garage - Franchised Ford dealer offers new and used vehicle sales, service, parts and accessories plus a body shop and petrol station.
Thrapston On Line - Community pages including business, leisure, tourism and local government.
Badgers Sett Ltd - The information covers rattan cane furniture repairs, chair caning supplies and do-it-yourself kits. On line ordering, a gallery of pictures, and a tip sheet on the care of cane work are included.
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Thrapston Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Thrapston Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Thrapston What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Thrapston "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev Thrapston It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Thrapston In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Thrapston "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "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) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Thrapston If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Thrapston 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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Thrapston blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thrapston "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Thrapston Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Thrapston 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. -- Elbert Hubbard Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Thrapston Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Thrapston Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Thrapston I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Thrapston "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Thrapston If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Thrapston Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Thrapston Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Thrapston Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Thrapston
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