Kneen and Brown Ancestors - Family history including surnames Kneen, Brown, Lloyd, Pennington, McDonald, Diericx, Baete, Leyn from England, Isle of Man and Belgium. Family photos and links page.
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Genealogy 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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Genealogy There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Genealogy
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Genealogy The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) 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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Genealogy
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy "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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Genealogy
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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Genealogy blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Genealogy
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Genealogy Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Genealogy
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Genealogy LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) Genealogy
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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? The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Genealogy "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Genealogy
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Genealogy "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Genealogy
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "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) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Genealogy Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Genealogy
