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Whetstone Parish Council - Parish and youth councils, newsletter, history and roles of councils, location, meeting minutes and local history.

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The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Whetstone The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Whetstone "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Whetstone I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since Whetstone Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Whetstone We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Whetstone A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Whetstone Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Whetstone Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Whetstone Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Whetstone When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Whetstone A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. -- Oscar Wilde Whetstone "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Whetstone "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Whetstone It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Whetstone I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Whetstone People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Whetstone "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Whetstone "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 Whetstone In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Whetstone We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Whetstone Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Whetstone
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