Heritage Motor Centre - UK's most comprehensive collection of historic and classic British vehicles. Regular outside events. Conferencing facilities. Mail order souvenir catalogue. Gaydon. Spawns some internal popups.
UK Traveller - Guide to the county including towns, pubs, accommodation and things to see and do.
Town & Country Festival - Local event covering motoring, shopping, leisure, recreation, food and pets.
Hatton Country World - Shopping village and farm park. Includes calendar and admission rates.
Umberslade Farm - Details of the attraction aimed at children, as well as of the farm shop and meat sales. Located in Tanworth in Arden.
Heart of England - Descriptions and photos of tourist attractions in Warwickshire and the Heart of England.
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
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-- Mark Twain A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Travel and Tourism While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Travel and Tourism Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Travel and Tourism I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Travel and Tourism
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Travel and Tourism The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism
