Glenville - Offers a tour of the village and its picturesque surroundings, its ancient well at Doon Peter and its historical Mass Rock.
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Glenville "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Glenville
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Glenville Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Glenville
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Glenville "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Glenville
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Glenville Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Glenville
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Glenville Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glenville
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Glenville Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Glenville
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Glenville No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Glenville
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Glenville blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Glenville
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Glenville We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Glenville
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Glenville The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glenville
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Glenville Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Glenville
