Henwick House - Bed and breakfast accommodation. Site includes description and photographs of the facilities and rooms, together with prices and a location map.
Callow End Primary School - Provides a school calendar, class pages, examples of pupils' work. The school prospectus and mission statement are available as MS Word documents.
Stanbrook Abbey - Benedictine monastery. Includes information about life at the abbey, and some historical details. Also includes details of the Abbey Press.
The Old Bush Football Club - Includes photos, match reports, player statistics, archives from previous seasons, and a current league table.
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Callow End I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Callow End
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Callow End "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Callow End
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-- Belfast Graffito Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Callow End I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Callow End
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Callow End Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Callow End
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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" "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Callow End Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Callow End
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Callow End "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Callow End
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Callow End "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Callow End
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Callow End You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "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) Callow End
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Callow End I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Callow End
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Callow End You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Callow End
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Callow End 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
tha "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Callow End
