Old Lambourne - Local history and general interest. Tithes in 1841, crime and punishment, war memorial and photos.
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Lambourne When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lambourne
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Lambourne You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Lambourne
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Lambourne A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Lambourne
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Lambourne Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Lambourne
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Lambourne Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Lambourne
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Lambourne We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Lambourne
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lambourne A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Lambourne
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Lambourne Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Lambourne
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Lambourne "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Lambourne
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Lambourne "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Lambourne
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Lambourne We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lambourne
