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Eversley Parish Council - Situated on the Hampshire - Berkshire border, the parish comprises five distinct hamlets: Eversley Cross, Eversley Centre, Eversley Street, Up Green and Lower Common
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Eversley There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Eversley
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eversley Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Eversley
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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Eversley Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Eversley
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Eversley The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Eversley
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "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) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Eversley I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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 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 Eversley
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Eversley There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Eversley
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Eversley I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Eversley
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 Eversley The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Eversley
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eversley Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Eversley
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Eversley If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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? Eversley
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Eversley What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Eversley
