Mamble Craft Centre - Details of the craft gallery, craft workshops, gift shop, and tea room, along with local information and road maps.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Mamble "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Mamble
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Mamble "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Mamble
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Mamble Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Mamble
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Mamble I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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" Mamble
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Mamble Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Mamble
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Mamble A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Mamble
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Mamble My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Mamble
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 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Mamble Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Mamble
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Mamble I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Mamble
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Mamble "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Mamble
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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) Man and wife make one fool. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Mamble Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Mamble
