Winsors Farm - Family run 16th-century, Grade II listed farm house available for bed and breakfast or self-catering holidays.
Wisteria Cottage - Holiday home for up to four people, available for long or short term let.
Alfoxton Park - Hotel which the former home of the poet William Wordsworth. Includes views of the interior and surrounding area.
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Travel and Tourism
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Travel and Tourism The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Travel and Tourism
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "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) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
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-- Nikki Giovanni Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Travel and Tourism "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Travel and Tourism
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Travel and Tourism
