HorstedKeynes.com - Community pages with history, local information, weather, property, pubs and local attractions.
Horsted Keynes - A villager's view of local life. Includes photo galleries of local events and notice of future ones.
The Green Man - Pub located on the green. Profile, opening times, menus and a brief history of the village. Also lists local bed and breakfast accommodation.
The Crown - Pub on the village green. Profile, facilities, opening times, menus and information about local attractions.
Bluebell Railway Fire Service - Describes its services to the railway with information about events and volunteering.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Horsted Keynes "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Horsted Keynes
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Horsted Keynes "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Horsted Keynes
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Horsted Keynes We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Horsted Keynes
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Horsted Keynes 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 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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Horsted Keynes
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Horsted Keynes "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Horsted Keynes
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Horsted Keynes We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Horsted Keynes
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Horsted Keynes We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Horsted Keynes
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Horsted Keynes "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Horsted Keynes
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Horsted Keynes "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Horsted Keynes
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Horsted Keynes Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Horsted Keynes
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Horsted Keynes The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Horsted Keynes
