Lunt Village - History of a small Sefton village, with links to sites about the village, and the surname "Lunt".
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Lunt A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Lunt
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Lunt "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Lunt
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Lunt The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Lunt
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Lunt I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Lunt
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Lunt Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lunt
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "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) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Lunt Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lunt
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Lunt After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Lunt
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lunt "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lunt
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Lunt Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lunt
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 Lunt Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Lunt
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Lunt We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Lunt
