Abberley Hall - Independent co-educational boarding school for 7-13 year olds.
The Manor Arms Country Inn and Hotel - Bed and breakfast accommodation, with a restaurant. Site includes details and photos of the facilities, sample menus, and the room tariff.
Old Yates Cottages - Holiday cottages to rent. Sites gives details of the facilities, prices, and contact details.
Abberley Churches - Information and services times for St Michael's and St Mary's churches.
The Elms Hotel - Includes description of rooms, restaurant, wedding and conference facilities, events, and photo gallery.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Abberley Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Abberley
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Abberley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Abberley
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "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) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Abberley Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Abberley
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "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 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Abberley It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Abberley
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Abberley "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Abberley
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Abberley It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Abberley
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Abberley In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Abberley
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abberley "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Abberley
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Abberley I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Abberley
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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Abberley You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "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') Abberley
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Abberley Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Abberley
