Blakehurst Bed and Breakfast - Georgian farmhouse on working farm three miles East of the town. Profile, facilities, local attractions and tariff with location map.
The Town House - Georgian hotel opposite the castle. Describes its restaurant and facilities with menu and revues.
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism
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.
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
My other wife is beautiful. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Travel and Tourism
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "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) Travel and Tourism The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 Travel and Tourism
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Travel and Tourism
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Travel and Tourism A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism
