The Long Barn - Bed and Breakfast Accommodation in Brize Norton
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Accommodation LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Accommodation
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Accommodation Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Accommodation
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Accommodation Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Accommodation
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Accommodation A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Accommodation
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Accommodation Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Accommodation "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows 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 Accommodation
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Accommodation I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Accommodation
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Accommodation Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "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) Accommodation
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Accommodation Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Accommodation
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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Accommodation What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Accommodation
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Accommodation Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Accommodation
