Kentwell Hall - The official site of this moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion; site includes history and visitor information, with details of Tudor and 1940s re-creations.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Travel and Tourism May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel and Tourism
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism
"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) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Travel and Tourism Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Travel and Tourism
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain 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 Travel and Tourism It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Travel and Tourism
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Travel and Tourism "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Travel and Tourism
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Travel and Tourism If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Travel and Tourism 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Travel and Tourism
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) 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 Travel and Tourism "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford 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 Travel and Tourism
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Travel and Tourism "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "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) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Travel and Tourism
