Lackham Museum - Information on the museum, its grounds and history, as well as details of local sites of interest.
Lackham Farm - Information on the farm and its livestock, as well as details of courses available, a newsletter and a glossary of terms.
Pursuits - Teambuilding and outdoor events. List of activities, location, map and contact details.
Lackham Countryside Centre - Conference and events centre situated in the Lackham Estate. Details of agricultural courses and services including wedding receptions, civil ceremonies and corporate events. Booking and contact information.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Lacock Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Lacock
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lacock "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Lacock
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Lacock "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lacock
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Lacock "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Lacock
"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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lacock When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Lacock blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Lacock
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Lacock "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Lacock
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lacock Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Lacock
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Lacock Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Lacock
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lacock There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Lacock
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Lacock Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Lacock
