Villa Stables - Self catering holiday cottage. Includes description of services and contact details.
Laxfield Childrens Drama Club - Amateur group. History, productions, friends, photographs, newsletter. Includes details of annual summer camp.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Laxfield Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Laxfield
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Laxfield "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Laxfield
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laxfield "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Laxfield
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Laxfield A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laxfield "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Laxfield
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Laxfield Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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 Laxfield
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Laxfield You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Laxfield
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Laxfield "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Laxfield
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Laxfield If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Laxfield
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Laxfield Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Laxfield "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Laxfield
