Fulstow Village - Information on the village with details of local events and organisations. Includes village newsletter.
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fulstow And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Fulstow
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Fulstow Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Fulstow
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Fulstow Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Fulstow
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Fulstow The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Fulstow
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Fulstow The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Fulstow
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Fulstow A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Fulstow
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Fulstow "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Fulstow
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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Fulstow Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Fulstow
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Fulstow Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Fulstow
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Fulstow "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Fulstow
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Fulstow "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Fulstow
