Bradshaws' Santa's Secret Farm - Christmas shop, Santa's Grotto, tree farm, and village of light. Includes directions and opening times.
CD ROM Cellar - A mail order computer software shop, offering new releases and obsolete titles. Also includes information about a party supply shop, which also makes casts of children's hands and feet.
Travelmasters - Cars and drivers for hire. Includes general information, contact details and on-line booking facility.
Acorn Landscape Gardening - The design, creation and care of domestic gardens. Includes examples of gardens and contact details.
Carefree Travel - Cars and drivers for hire. Includes contact and booking details, and a price list.
H. S. Hommers and Sons Ltd. - Information on this wholesale nursery, including company profile, contact details and special offers.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Business and Economy Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Business and Economy
"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) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Business and Economy
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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. 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 Business and Economy A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Business and Economy Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Business and Economy
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business and Economy "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Business and Economy
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Business and Economy Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Business and Economy
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Business and Economy
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Business and Economy Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Business and Economy The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Business and Economy
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Business and Economy "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Business and Economy
