Tibshelf - Community site containing historical and local news and information.
Tibshelf Parish - Information and local news on this village.
Tibshelf Against Opencast - Site to fight opencast mining in this area, includes a download section to print out a poster.
Tommy Hulatt - Information about a four-minute mile runner.
Tibshelf Parish Council - The official site for this village. Information and guidance for visitors and parishioners of the village.
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Tibshelf Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Tibshelf
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Tibshelf The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tibshelf
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tibshelf We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Tibshelf
"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) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Tibshelf "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Tibshelf
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Tibshelf Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Tibshelf
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Tibshelf "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Tibshelf
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Tibshelf Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Tibshelf
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Tibshelf Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Tibshelf
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Tibshelf To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 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 Tibshelf
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Tibshelf Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Tibshelf
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "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) Tibshelf "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Tibshelf
