Kitsch Shop - Novelty gifts and the retro kitsch. Buy online.
Hello Kitty Shop - Stocking Hello Kitty and French Kitty merchandise. Online ordering.
Pond Tail Surgery - Practice information and patient self-help advice.
The Orpheus Centre - A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard Stilgoe. Offering courses in various displines of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills.
Godstone Electric Co - Electrical and mechanical engineers. Industrial and domestic electrical contractors.
Godstone Vineyards - Local vineyards website that includes tours, wine tasting and a members club.
Oakmasters of Godstone - Provides custom built oak furniture and joinery. Specialists in house restoration.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Godstone The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Godstone
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Godstone I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Godstone
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Godstone "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Godstone
"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) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Godstone Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Godstone
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Godstone Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Godstone
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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.
-- My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Godstone I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Godstone
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Godstone There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Godstone
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Godstone "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Godstone
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Godstone I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Godstone
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "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) Godstone "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Godstone
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Godstone Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Godstone
