Linby Parish Council - Contains photographs of the village of Linby in Nottinghamshire, and information about Council meetings.
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Linby Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Linby
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Linby I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Linby
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Linby To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Linby
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch 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 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Linby If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Linby
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Linby "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Linby
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Linby Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Linby
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Linby This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Linby
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Linby Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Linby
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Linby "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Linby
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Linby "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Linby
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Linby Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Linby
