Fownhope - Village website, with parish history, and directories of accommodation, businesses, eating out, club and organisations. Includes four maps and bus timetable.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Fownhope In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Fownhope
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Fownhope "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Fownhope
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fownhope Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Fownhope
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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, Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Fownhope Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Fownhope
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Fownhope "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fownhope
"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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Fownhope Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Fownhope
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Fownhope Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Fownhope
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Fownhope The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Fownhope
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Fownhope "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Fownhope
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Fownhope Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Fownhope
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Fownhope Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Fownhope
