Brookmans Park Rotary Club - Details of activities, club history, charitable work, programme of events and banner collection.
Brookmans Park Hotel - Room rates, restaurant menu, details of conferencing facilities and directions.
Brookmans Park Newsletter - Local history, messageboard, neighbourhood watch scheme, environmental reports, photo galleries, news and country walks.
Tracy's - French polishers. Describes its services and includes a photo gallery.
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Brookmans Park I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Brookmans Park
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Brookmans Park The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Brookmans Park
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Brookmans Park I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Brookmans Park
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Brookmans Park Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Brookmans Park
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Brookmans Park We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Brookmans Park
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Brookmans Park "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Brookmans Park
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Brookmans Park Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Brookmans Park
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Brookmans Park It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Brookmans Park
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Brookmans Park Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Brookmans Park
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Brookmans Park We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Brookmans Park
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Brookmans Park We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Brookmans Park
