Coopershill - Accommodation offered in a Georgian mansion, which has been home to seven generations of the OHara family since it was built in 1774.
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Riverstown Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Riverstown
My other wife is beautiful. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Riverstown The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Riverstown
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Riverstown Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Riverstown
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Riverstown It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Riverstown
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Riverstown When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Riverstown
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Riverstown In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Riverstown
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Riverstown Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Riverstown
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Riverstown I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Riverstown
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Riverstown The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Riverstown
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Riverstown Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Riverstown
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Riverstown It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Riverstown
