History of Waresley - History and photographs from the book 'Waresley My Birthplace' by Oliver Broderick.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. History As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 History
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings History "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin History If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen History
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your History Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher History
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius History "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward History
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck 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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion History If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde History
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 History "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold History
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 History Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca History
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) History Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) History
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) History The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard History
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu History Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 History
