Elstow Parish Council - Information about the village, its history and most famous former resident, John Bunyan.
Elstow Abbey - The church of St Mary and St Helena, dating from the 11th Century. Information on services, events, community groups and the history of the church.
GENUKI - Elstow - A brief history of the village and links to related resources.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Elstow Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Elstow
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Elstow When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Elstow
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Elstow "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Elstow
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Elstow "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elstow
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Elstow May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Elstow
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Elstow Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Elstow
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Elstow It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Elstow
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Elstow What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Elstow
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Elstow "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Elstow
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Elstow They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Elstow
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Elstow Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Elstow
