Green Man - East Anglia - Dedicated to the occurrence of the Green Man or foliate head carvings in East Anglian buildings. Photo galleries, gazetteer and commentary.
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Folklore The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Folklore
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Folklore Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Folklore
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Folklore Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Folklore
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Folklore I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Folklore
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Folklore Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Folklore
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Folklore I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Folklore
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Folklore I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Folklore
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Folklore He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Folklore
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Folklore Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Folklore
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Folklore During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Folklore
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Folklore "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 Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Folklore
