History of Kirkby Mallory - Contains historical information together with graphics about village life. Discusses the origins of Mallory Park, the Byron connection and information about the site author.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Kirkby Mallory In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Kirkby Mallory
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Kirkby Mallory "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Kirkby Mallory
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Kirkby Mallory "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Kirkby Mallory
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Kirkby Mallory "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Kirkby Mallory
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Kirkby Mallory Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Kirkby Mallory
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Kirkby Mallory 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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Kirkby Mallory
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Kirkby Mallory I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Kirkby Mallory
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Kirkby Mallory blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Kirkby Mallory
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Kirkby Mallory An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Kirkby Mallory
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Kirkby Mallory Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Kirkby Mallory
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Kirkby Mallory Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Kirkby Mallory
