Hillview Lodge - Family run guesthouse with disabled facilities and golf driving range. Includes photos, a description of the accommodation, room rates and online booking.
Charlemont Arms Hotel - Features a guide to the accommodation and banqueting facilities, plus history, restaurant and bar menus, event information and online reservations.
Charlemont Arms Hotel - Includes a description of the accommodation, online reservation facility, history and restaurant menu.
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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
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-- Groucho Marx Accommodation The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Accommodation
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Accommodation A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Accommodation
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 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Accommodation Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Accommodation
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
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-- Smith & Jones What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Accommodation
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Accommodation There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Accommodation
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Accommodation
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Accommodation The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Accommodation
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard 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 Accommodation "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Accommodation Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Accommodation
"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) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Accommodation Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Accommodation
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Accommodation "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Accommodation
