Brierley - Information about the village and its surrounding area including a detailed historical account of events past.
Brierley Historic Photographic Society - Official site that includes information about the society as well as old and new photographs of the village and surrounding area.
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Brierley Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Brierley
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Brierley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Brierley
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Brierley 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. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Brierley
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyway, 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,
ign Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Brierley Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Brierley
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Brierley Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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.
-- Anonymous Brierley
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Brierley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Brierley
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Brierley "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Brierley
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "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) Brierley 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Brierley
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Brierley Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Brierley
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Brierley Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Brierley
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Brierley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Brierley
