The Swan Inn - Fourteenth-century coaching inn. Includes illustrated descriptions of the accommodation, dining room and bars, and a location map.
Fittleworth Mummers Play - Gives the cast list and full text of 'King George and the Dragon', which was regularly performed by the local tipteerers. Unusual because there isn't a dragon in it.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Fittleworth He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Fittleworth
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Fittleworth "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Fittleworth
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Fittleworth "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Fittleworth
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Fittleworth Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Fittleworth
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Fittleworth "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Fittleworth
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Fittleworth It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Fittleworth
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Fittleworth Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Fittleworth
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fittleworth Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Fittleworth
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Fittleworth It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Fittleworth
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Fittleworth "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Fittleworth
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Fittleworth 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fittleworth
