Virtual Crowle - A virtual stroll including photographs of the two churches, the old Assembly Room and the Market Place.
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Crowle To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Crowle
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Crowle 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 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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Crowle
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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
not allow Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Crowle That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Crowle
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Crowle We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Crowle I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Crowle
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Crowle Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Crowle
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Crowle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Crowle
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Crowle If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Crowle
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Crowle Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crowle
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Crowle If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Crowle
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Crowle 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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Crowle
