Fenstanton Village - Historical and community information about this village near Cambridge. Site includes census request forms and a parish directory.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Fenstanton We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "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) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Fenstanton
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Fenstanton If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "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) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Fenstanton
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Fenstanton "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Fenstanton
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Fenstanton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Fenstanton
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Fenstanton It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Fenstanton
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Fenstanton You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Fenstanton
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Fenstanton My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fenstanton
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Fenstanton A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Fenstanton
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Fenstanton Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Fenstanton
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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" First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Fenstanton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Fenstanton
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Fenstanton In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Fenstanton
