Wendover Arm Trust - Photo gallery of restoration of the waterway running through the locality from the Grand Union Canal.
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Aston Clinton A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Aston Clinton
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Aston Clinton "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Aston Clinton
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Aston Clinton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Aston Clinton
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Aston Clinton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Aston Clinton
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Aston Clinton Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Aston Clinton
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Aston Clinton "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Aston Clinton
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Aston Clinton Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Aston Clinton
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Aston Clinton "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Aston Clinton
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Aston Clinton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Aston Clinton
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Aston Clinton Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Aston Clinton
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Aston Clinton 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Aston Clinton
