The Detling Players - Community theatre group. Includes membership and ticket information, contacts and locations, news of future productions and archive of past ones.
Military Odyssey - Information about the annual multi-period living history event and collectors fair.
South East Car Search - Used car dealer also sourcing new vehicles. Profile, services and illustrated stock list.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Detling Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Detling
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Detling I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Detling
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Detling May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Detling
Man and wife make one fool. 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 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Detling Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Detling
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Detling A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Detling
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Detling The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Detling
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Detling Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Detling
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Detling Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Detling
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Detling "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Detling
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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 Detling "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Detling
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "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) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Detling "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Detling
