Village of Little Thurlow - Features several publications, with full text, sponsored by the Parish Council including local history, wildlife and childhood memories.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Little Thurlow "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Little Thurlow
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 a blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Little Thurlow The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Little Thurlow
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Little Thurlow I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Little Thurlow
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Little Thurlow In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Little Thurlow
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Little Thurlow Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Little Thurlow
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Little Thurlow Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Little Thurlow
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Little Thurlow "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Little Thurlow
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Little Thurlow Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Little Thurlow
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Little Thurlow The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Little Thurlow
"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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Little Thurlow Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Little Thurlow
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Little Thurlow The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Little Thurlow
