Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum - Tells the tale of six labourers' arrest, trial and deportation for unionising, leading to the foundation of modern trade unionism.
The Parish of Tolpuddle - Provides a brief description and historical data, including census, parish registers, a mailing list and links to old maps.
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada 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 Tolpuddle I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Tolpuddle
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Tolpuddle Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Tolpuddle
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Tolpuddle "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Tolpuddle
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Tolpuddle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Tolpuddle
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Tolpuddle Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Tolpuddle
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "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) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Tolpuddle Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Tolpuddle
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Tolpuddle "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Tolpuddle
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Tolpuddle The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Tolpuddle
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Tolpuddle If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Tolpuddle
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Tolpuddle Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Tolpuddle
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Tolpuddle "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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