Atworth Village Online - Gives an overview of information on organisations and activities within and around the village.
Church Farm - Photographs and details of bed and breakfast accommodation on a working dairy farm.
Botanic Nursery - Home-grown foxgloves, grasses, ferns, perennials, shrubs and climbers. Features lime-tolerant plants. Sells plants by carrier from September to March, and seeds from October to June.
Stonar School - Information and admission details for independent school taking boarding girls 8 to 18, day girls 2+ to 18 and day boys 2+ to 8.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Atworth A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Atworth
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Atworth Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Atworth
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Atworth Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Atworth
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Atworth I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Atworth
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Atworth I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Atworth
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Atworth I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Atworth
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "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) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Atworth To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Atworth
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Atworth A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Atworth
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Atworth Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Atworth
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Atworth Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Atworth
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Atworth The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Atworth
