Gary Witheford - Equine behaviourist outlines his methods, case studies, and forthcoming shows and clinics.
Burbage - Local information, history, maps, weather.
Westcourt Bottom - Accommodation in 17th century cottage, also artists studios. Includes photos and list of rooms, facilities and rates.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Burbage The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Burbage
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Burbage Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Burbage
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Burbage Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Burbage
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Burbage Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Burbage
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Burbage "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Burbage
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Burbage The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Burbage
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Burbage I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Burbage
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Burbage "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) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Burbage
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Burbage Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Burbage
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Burbage Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Burbage
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Burbage Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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" Burbage
