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Welcome to Ironbridge - Includes hotels, places to eat, businesses, and a virtual tour.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Guides and Directories Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "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) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Guides and Directories
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Guides and Directories "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Guides and Directories
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Guides and Directories The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Guides and Directories
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Guides and Directories "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Guides and Directories
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Guides and Directories Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Guides and Directories
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Guides and Directories
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Guides and Directories 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Guides and Directories "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Guides and Directories
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Guides and Directories This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Guides and Directories
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
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