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All Saints Church - Anglican evangelical church. Includes history, mission statement, beliefs, news, service times and personnel.
Riders at Play - Distributor and consultant for Balance saddles. Introduction, information about consultation and events, and a forum.
Riseley Historical Society - Profile, contacts and information about the book Riseley our Village published in 2000.
Mill Ponds - Farm produce. Offers free range eggs, honey, pork and bacon with location instructions.
Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 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 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 Riseley "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Riseley To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Riseley "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Riseley If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Riseley "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Riseley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Riseley "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Riseley "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Riseley I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Riseley 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Riseley When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Riseley Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Riseley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Riseley Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 Riseley "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Riseley I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni Riseley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "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 Riseley "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Riseley "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Riseley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Riseley The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Riseley
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