Pre-Norman Stone Crosses in England - Descriptions and photographs of many of the ancient crosses found in the churches of England. By Christopher J. Tolley.
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Christianity Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Christianity
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Christianity Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Christianity
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Christianity "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Christianity
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "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) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Christianity Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Christianity
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 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 "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Christianity Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Christianity
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 Christianity There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Christianity
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Christianity "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Christianity
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Christianity "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Christianity
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christianity I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Christianity
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Christianity To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Christianity
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Christianity blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Christianity
