Grove Cottages - Five holiday cottages. Includes description of each, with features, prices, availability, and local attractions.
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "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) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Edwardstone "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Edwardstone
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Edwardstone Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Edwardstone
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Edwardstone Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Edwardstone
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Edwardstone "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Edwardstone
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Edwardstone Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Edwardstone
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Edwardstone A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Edwardstone
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Edwardstone Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Edwardstone
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Edwardstone "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 Edwardstone
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Edwardstone "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Edwardstone
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Edwardstone "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Edwardstone
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Edwardstone Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Edwardstone
