Granary Hotel - Located in nearby Shenstone, with 18 bedrooms, wedding, banquet and conference facilities. Includes a map and directions.
Stone Manor Hotel - Set in 25 acres two miles from the centre of town, with information about conference facilities, weddings, functions, and the restaurant menu.
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Accommodation What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Accommodation
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Accommodation
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Accommodation The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Accommodation There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Accommodation
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Accommodation Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "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 price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Accommodation We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Accommodation
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Accommodation "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Accommodation
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Accommodation "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Accommodation
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Accommodation Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Accommodation
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Accommodation If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Accommodation
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Accommodation "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Accommodation
