The Steps Guest House - Site includes details and photographs of bed and breakfast accommodation, together with the tariff. [requires flash]
Feckenham Turnery - Galleries of hand-turned wooden items for sale and to order.
J.W. Barrett - Blacksmith specialising in design, manufacture, and fitting. Site includes image galleries of previous work.
The FeckenOdeon Cinema Society - Includes the film programme, details of how to join, and some general information about the village.
Nigel Earle Cards - Offers handmade greetings cards with a musical theme. Site provides information about the cards, together with an online catalogue and store.
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Feckenham Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Feckenham
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Feckenham Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Feckenham
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Feckenham We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Feckenham
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Feckenham I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Feckenham
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Feckenham Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Feckenham
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Feckenham Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Feckenham
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Feckenham When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Feckenham
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Feckenham Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Feckenham
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Feckenham Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Feckenham
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Feckenham He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Feckenham
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Feckenham You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Feckenham
