Winteringham.info - Local history and current information on the village. Personal memories and photographs of villagers included.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Winteringham The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Winteringham
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Winteringham blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Winteringham
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Winteringham "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winteringham
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Winteringham What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Winteringham
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Winteringham People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Winteringham
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Winteringham If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw What's new? Most of my wife. Winteringham
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Winteringham Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Winteringham
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Winteringham Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Winteringham
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Winteringham "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Winteringham
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winteringham Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Winteringham
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Winteringham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Winteringham
