Harpole - A description of the village, includes images, news and forthcoming events.
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Harpole Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Harpole
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Harpole Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Harpole
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Harpole The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Harpole
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Harpole His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Harpole
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Harpole If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Harpole
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "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) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Harpole 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Harpole
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Harpole Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Harpole
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Harpole "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Harpole
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Harpole Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Harpole
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Harpole The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Harpole
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Harpole Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Harpole
