Fairbrook House - Includes a section on the history of the house and gardens as well as Clary Mastenbroek's art gallery, viewing times and location.
Waterford County Library - Gives information on the branch libraries, kids zone, local studies and contact details.
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-- Johnny Carson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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isn't bad.
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-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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-- Adair Lara "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Arts and Entertainment
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "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' Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Arts and Entertainment "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Arts and Entertainment "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Arts and Entertainment If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Arts and Entertainment
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Arts and Entertainment
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "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) Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"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) "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) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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