Hanmer Hotel - Countryside hotel and restaurant. Describes the establishment and its facilities and services with information about weddings, functions and activities.
Whitchurch Brass Band - History of the band, with membership, rehearsal and booking details.
G Blackurst & Son Ltd - Renault Minute Service centre and suppliers of new and used vehicles. Includes stock list with photographs and prices.
Guy Evans & Son Ltd - Independent insurance consultants and brokers. Site features an enquiry form & product range listing.
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Whitchurch Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Whitchurch
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Whitchurch It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Whitchurch
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Whitchurch If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whitchurch
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Whitchurch It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Whitchurch
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Whitchurch To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Whitchurch
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Whitchurch 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Whitchurch
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whitchurch We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Whitchurch
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Whitchurch What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Whitchurch
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whitchurch Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whitchurch
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Whitchurch It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Whitchurch
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Whitchurch When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whitchurch
