Channel Islands Genealogy - One of the few Web sites that deals solely with the Channel Islands and attempts to focus on Channel Islands genealogy.
CI-Methodist - List of and some links to the methodist churches in the circuit, with information about each island and events.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Society and Culture Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture "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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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.
-- Society and Culture
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Society and Culture
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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) Society and Culture
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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) "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) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "... 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) Society and Culture Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Society and Culture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Society and Culture
