Tarporley Then and Now - Details of a book, which contains pictures of Tarporley dating from 1860 to the present. Includes a printable order form.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Travel and Tourism We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Travel and Tourism Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Travel and Tourism
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
"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) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Travel and Tourism
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
