Marple Website - A community site featuring local history, events, attractions and amenities. Includes a pub guide, picture galleries, classified ad's and a community notice board.
Mellor Village web site - Community web site for Mellor near Marple, bordering the Peak District. It includes local events and links to publications, maps, local history, genealogy and schools.
A Virtual Tour of Marple - A Pictorial Guide to Marple through the ages, featuring hundreds of postcards and photographs of bygone Marple in categorised galleries. Includes a search facility.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Marple "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marple
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marple Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marple
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marple I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Marple
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marple The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marple
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Marple When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marple
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Marple The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marple
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marple Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Marple
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Marple Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Marple
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marple America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marple
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marple People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Marple
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Marple You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Marple
