Avonbridge Hotel - Situated in Hamilton, the Avonbridge hotel offers conference, seminar and exhibition facilities. It also caters for a variety of different functions including dinner dances and wedding receptions from 50 to 200 guests.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Accommodation And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Accommodation
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Accommodation "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) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Accommodation
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Accommodation All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Accommodation I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Accommodation
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Accommodation Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Accommodation
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana What's new? Most of my wife. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Accommodation In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Accommodation
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Accommodation Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Accommodation
"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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Accommodation
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "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) Accommodation 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Accommodation
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Accommodation Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Accommodation
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Accommodation Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Accommodation
