Appleby - Lincolnshire - A personal celebration of a small Lincolnshire village. Poems, local history, photographs, articles and seasonal projects.
Magical Peg Rugs - Traditional hand made rugs to buy from stock, and commissions undertaken. Contains lots of pictures of guinea pigs.
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Appleby Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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
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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Appleby Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Appleby
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Appleby A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Appleby
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Appleby In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Appleby
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Appleby "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Appleby Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Appleby
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Appleby When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Appleby Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Appleby
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Appleby Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Appleby
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Appleby People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Appleby
"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 days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Appleby The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Appleby
