Boxley Parish Council - Meeting dates and minutes, photos and community information.
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "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) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boxley 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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Boxley
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Boxley 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boxley
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Boxley Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Boxley
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Boxley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Boxley
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Boxley "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Boxley
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Boxley Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Boxley
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Boxley "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Boxley
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Boxley "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Boxley
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Boxley You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Boxley
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Boxley "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Boxley
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boxley If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Boxley
