Kirtlington Morris - Includes history, events, photo gallery, mummers and contact details.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Dance "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Dance
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Dance Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Dance
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Dance Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Dance
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Dance "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dance
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Dance It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Dance
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 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 Dance 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 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Dance
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Dance In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Dance
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dance Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Dance
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight 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 Dance If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Dance "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 Dance
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Dance And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Dance
