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Potterne.Net - Community pages including local events, walks, history, clubs, services and a discussion forum.
Potterne Cricket Club - News, reviews, fixtures and results. Includes a history of the club and photographs.
Stable Cottage - Offers self-catering holiday accommodation in a thatched 17th century cottage. Includes photographs, prices and testimonials.
Blounts Court Farm - Bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes prices, location details and photographs.
Whistley Antiques and Upholstery - Antiques from the Victorian era to the middle of the twentieth century. Also provides upholstery service. Includes details of the methods used and items for sale.
The Mill School - Independent preparatory school for 4 to 11 year old pupils. Includes a description of the school, its aims, admissions process, curriculum and extra curricular activities.
Inner Space - Interior design in contemporary and traditional style. Includes contact details and images of work.
Twigs Crafts - Hand-made decorations and gifts inspired by folk art, incorporating homespun fabrics, herbs and spices. Includes an illustrated product catalogue and home project ideas.
Character Landscapes - Offers countryside, landscape and environmental services to public, private and commercial concerns throughout the region. Service descriptions and picture gallery.
Wiltshire Traditions - An organisation that researches, collects and re-enacts traditional music, song, customs and traditions of Wiltshire. Includes a newsletter.
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "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) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Potterne Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Potterne Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Potterne "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Potterne "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Potterne "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Potterne Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Potterne Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein 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 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Potterne Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Potterne Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Potterne While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Potterne The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Potterne One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Potterne When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Potterne A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Potterne Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Potterne The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Potterne I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Potterne "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Potterne If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Potterne "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Potterne I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Potterne
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