Abbots Langley Local History Society - Profile, programme, projects, publications and information about membership. Also includes a brief history of the village.
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Abbots Langley Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Abbots Langley
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Abbots Langley Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Abbots Langley
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Abbots Langley Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Abbots Langley
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Abbots Langley 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Abbots Langley
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Abbots Langley "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Abbots Langley
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Abbots Langley Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Abbots Langley
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Abbots Langley Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Abbots Langley
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Abbots Langley "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Abbots Langley
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Abbots Langley He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Abbots Langley
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Abbots Langley "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Abbots Langley
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Abbots Langley "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Abbots Langley
