The Lavender Line - Preserved railway run by volunteers. Describes the organisation and its history and facilities with event calendar, timetable and information about membership.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Isfield Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 Isfield
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Isfield "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Isfield
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Isfield A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Isfield
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Isfield "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Isfield
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Isfield When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Isfield
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Isfield I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Isfield
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Isfield "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Isfield
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Isfield >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Isfield
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Isfield MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Isfield
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Isfield Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Isfield
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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Isfield "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Isfield
