Helmdon - Includes history, village life, groups and activities, and general information.
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Helmdon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Helmdon
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Helmdon We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Helmdon
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Helmdon A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Helmdon
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Helmdon It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Helmdon
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Helmdon Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Helmdon
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Helmdon Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Helmdon
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Helmdon "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Helmdon
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Helmdon 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Helmdon
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Helmdon Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Helmdon
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Helmdon It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Helmdon
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Helmdon All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Helmdon
