Teme Valley - History and information about various towns along the Teme valley.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Guides and Directories
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Guides and Directories "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Guides and Directories
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Guides and Directories Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Guides and Directories "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "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) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Guides and Directories
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Guides and Directories A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Guides and Directories
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Guides and Directories
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Guides and Directories
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Guides and Directories Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Guides and Directories
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Guides and Directories "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
