Weobley, Herefordshire - Accommodation and shopping information about the National Village of the Year 1999.
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Weobley "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weobley
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Weobley Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Weobley
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Weobley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "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) Weobley
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 Weobley I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Weobley
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Weobley There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Weobley
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Weobley If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Weobley
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Weobley Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Weobley
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Weobley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Weobley
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Weobley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Weobley
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Weobley Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Weobley
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Weobley Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Weobley