Drinkstone Mills, Suffolk - Detailed information about the windmills, their history and use in the TV series Dad's Army also photos.
Caliber Bull Terriers - History and overview of these dog breeders. Details and photos of champions bred and bitches for breeding.
Drinkstone Community Website - Created and updated by the residents of village. Includes local events and history.
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Drinkstone "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Drinkstone
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Drinkstone 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 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Drinkstone
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Drinkstone "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Drinkstone
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Drinkstone Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Drinkstone
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Drinkstone "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Drinkstone
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Drinkstone "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Drinkstone
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Drinkstone "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Drinkstone
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Drinkstone I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Drinkstone
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Drinkstone Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Drinkstone
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Drinkstone blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Drinkstone
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Drinkstone "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Drinkstone
