The Swan Hotel & Cygnet Restaurant - In the village of Aberford, on the Great North Road, this has been coaching inn for over 400 years. Information on facilities, downloadable menus, contact details, and on-line booking.
Aberford Buggy Club - Information about a club for radio control car enthusiasts. Details of membership, events, race results, and general background information and pictures of the hobby.
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Aberford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aberford
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aberford Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Aberford
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Aberford Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Aberford
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Aberford "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Aberford
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Aberford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Aberford
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Aberford If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Aberford
"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 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Aberford Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Aberford
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Aberford "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Aberford
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Aberford In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Aberford
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Aberford Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Aberford
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Aberford If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Aberford
