Birdbrook - Rosettes, promotional and commemorative products. Information on range and prices.
Foss Focus - Saxilby & District News - Community newsletter for Saxilby and its surrounding villages including Parish Church, Methodist Church, Parish Council, District Council and School information.
Bransby Home of Rest for Horses - Information on the charity, and the adoption of horses. Also online catalogue of related gifts with online ordering.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Saxilby Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Saxilby
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "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 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Saxilby You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Saxilby
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Saxilby I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Saxilby
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Saxilby Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Saxilby
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Saxilby "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Saxilby
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Saxilby The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Saxilby
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Saxilby What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland 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
comple You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Saxilby
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Saxilby The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Saxilby
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Saxilby "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Saxilby
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Saxilby My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Saxilby
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saxilby Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Saxilby
