Barford St Martin Parish Council - Local parish council, also contains information on history of village, church and local history group.
The Barford Inn - A 16th century former coaching inn just 5 miles west of Salisbury . Includes information on facilities, special offers, location and links to community resources .
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 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Barford St Martin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Barford St Martin
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Barford St Martin But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Barford St Martin
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Barford St Martin Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Barford St Martin
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Barford St Martin It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Barford St Martin
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Barford St Martin He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Barford St Martin
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Barford St Martin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Barford St Martin
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Barford St Martin To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Barford St Martin
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Barford St Martin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Barford St Martin
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Barford St Martin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Barford St Martin
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Barford St Martin The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Barford St Martin
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Barford St Martin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Barford St Martin
