Delphiniums - Information about delphinium species grown in David and Shirley Bassett's garden.
Biddestone Broadsheet - Designed to promote the village, detailing history, local events and activities. An on-going source of information for villager and tourist. Includes virtual tour.
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biddestone The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Biddestone
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Biddestone This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Biddestone
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Biddestone He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht 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 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 Biddestone
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Biddestone Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Biddestone
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Biddestone Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Biddestone
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Biddestone The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Biddestone
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Biddestone "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Biddestone
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Biddestone blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Biddestone
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Biddestone Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Biddestone
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Biddestone Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Biddestone
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Biddestone Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Biddestone
