Frisby on the Wreake - Visual village tour by photos and descriptions. Details of clubs local events and a newsletter.
Frisby Players - Amateur dramatic society. Details of productions and background information about the society.
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Frisby on the Wreake I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Frisby on the Wreake
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Frisby on the Wreake Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Frisby on the Wreake
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Frisby on the Wreake Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Frisby on the Wreake
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Frisby on the Wreake There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Frisby on the Wreake
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Frisby on the Wreake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Frisby on the Wreake
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Frisby on the Wreake Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Frisby on the Wreake
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Frisby on the Wreake "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Frisby on the Wreake
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 Frisby on the Wreake Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Frisby on the Wreake
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Frisby on the Wreake Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Frisby on the Wreake
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Frisby on the Wreake It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Frisby on the Wreake
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Frisby on the Wreake Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Frisby on the Wreake
