The Elmsted Site - Local and family history of the village. Includes extracts from censuses and parish records, wills, family trees, photos, church guides and catalogue of local history exhibition.
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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Elmsted The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Elmsted
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Elmsted "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Elmsted
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Elmsted In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Elmsted
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Elmsted The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Elmsted
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Elmsted My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Elmsted
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Elmsted A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Elmsted
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Elmsted It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Elmsted
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Elmsted "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Elmsted
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Elmsted "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Elmsted
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Elmsted Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 Elmsted
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Elmsted In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Elmsted
