The Bothy - 18th century Grade II listed cottage attached to historic Cresswell House. Descriptions, photographs and information on the area and South Shropshire.
Newcastle-on-Clun - A guide to amenities and attractions with local news and articles.
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Clun "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Clun
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Clun I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Clun
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Clun Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin 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 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Clun
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Clun Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Clun
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Clun Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Clun
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Clun Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Clun
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Clun "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Clun
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Clun If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Clun
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Clun Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Clun
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Clun "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Clun
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Clun Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Clun
