Ten Bells - CAMRA approved public house. Overview, location and opening times.
Barn Cottages - Self catering Holiday Cottages for two in the peaceful countryside and pets welcome. Overview, prices and news.
JT Partnership - Manufacturers of reproduction furniture in various woods. Products available and contact.
Stonham Barns - Leisure, shopping and rural puruits complex. Visitor details and flash presentation of the area.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Stonham Aspal "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Stonham Aspal
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Stonham Aspal "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) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Stonham Aspal
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Stonham Aspal A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Stonham Aspal
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Stonham Aspal A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Stonham Aspal
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Stonham Aspal It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Stonham Aspal
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Stonham Aspal "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Stonham Aspal
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Stonham Aspal The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Stonham Aspal
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stonham Aspal Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Stonham Aspal
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Stonham Aspal "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Stonham Aspal
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Stonham Aspal Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Stonham Aspal
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Stonham Aspal How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Stonham Aspal
