Shopping Shropshire - Include a description and photos of many towns and villages, directory of tourist attractions, and property listings from two estate agents.
South Shropshire - Provides information about the south of the county, including the market towns of Ludlow, Church Stretton, Clun, Cleobury Mortimer, Bishop's Castle and Craven Arms. Local attractions and visitors resources.
The Corvedale Site - A description of the Corvedale area, with local produce and artisans.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Guides and Directories Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault 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 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Guides and Directories Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Guides and Directories
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Guides and Directories Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Guides and Directories
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Guides and Directories While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guides and Directories Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Guides and Directories "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Guides and Directories
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Guides and Directories I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Guides and Directories
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Guides and Directories I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Guides and Directories
