Linkinhorne Parish - Covering Minions, Henwood, Linkinhorne, Upton Cross, Rilla Mill and parts of Bray Cross. Parish council information plus events, history, organisations and business directory.
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Minions Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Minions
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Minions That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Minions
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Minions I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "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) Minions
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "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) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Minions "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Minions
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Minions In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Minions
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Minions There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Minions
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Minions Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Minions
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Minions Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Minions
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Minions When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Minions
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Minions Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Minions
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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" Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Minions Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 Minions
