The Rowsley Association - Ex railway employees. Describes their activities with history and reunion information.
The Peacock - Country hotel and restaurant. Describes its facilities with sample menu and information about functions.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Rowsley Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Rowsley
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Rowsley Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Rowsley
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Rowsley I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Rowsley
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Rowsley I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Rowsley
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Rowsley "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Rowsley
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. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rowsley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rowsley
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Rowsley My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Rowsley
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "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) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Rowsley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Rowsley
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Rowsley Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Rowsley
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Rowsley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Rowsley
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Rowsley "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Rowsley
