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Birds Unlimited - Brian Dawson makes hand made hard wood seagull mobiles which were inspired by the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
Electricars - Designers and manufacturers of a full and diverse range of battery electric vehicles, utilising standard components, chassis and power units.
B & G Cleaning Systems Ltd - Sales and maintenance of power and pressure washers, steam and vacuum cleaners, scrubbing and sweeping machines. Product information and contact details available.
Old Red Lion Hotel - 18th century hotel and conference centre with public bars, restaurant and function suites. Wedding receptions and parties.
Fireparts - Replacement parts and spares for fires & cookers. Also multifuel appliance spares for roomheaters.
Easiclean Wipers - Wiping cloths and paper products from Easiclean Wipers - rag wipers, polishing cloths, stockingette and paper disposables.
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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Atherstone "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Atherstone
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Atherstone Man and wife make one fool. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Atherstone
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Atherstone "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Atherstone
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Atherstone "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Atherstone
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 Atherstone "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Atherstone
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Atherstone The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Atherstone
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Atherstone Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Atherstone "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Atherstone
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Atherstone "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Atherstone
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Atherstone Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Atherstone
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Atherstone "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, My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Atherstone
