edwinstowe.net - Forum, events calendar and interactive links to activities.
Edwinstowe Village Exchange - Indoor market selling bric-a-brac, nearly new toys, clothes and books. Location and opening times.
Robin's Rest - Tea room and B and B. Opening hours, visitors book, tariff and opening times.
Edwinstowe Parish Council - Local links, a clickable map of the village with information on the specific sights and enquiry form.
The Marketing Group - Business planning and marketing services. Details of services available, discussion forum, organisation profile and event listings.
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Edwinstowe That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Edwinstowe
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Edwinstowe "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Edwinstowe
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Edwinstowe Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Edwinstowe
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Edwinstowe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Edwinstowe
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Edwinstowe This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Edwinstowe
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Edwinstowe Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Edwinstowe
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Edwinstowe When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Edwinstowe
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Edwinstowe "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) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Edwinstowe
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Edwinstowe If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Edwinstowe
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Edwinstowe I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Edwinstowe
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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Edwinstowe We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Edwinstowe
