Robert Steed's Family History Page - The genealogy of the Bradnam, Fenn, Gilbert, Goody, Grimmer, Hurrell, Jackson, Peck, Purr, Russell and Steed families.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Genealogy Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Genealogy
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Genealogy The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Genealogy
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genealogy You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Genealogy
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Genealogy The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Genealogy
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Genealogy Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Genealogy
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Genealogy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Genealogy If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Genealogy
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Genealogy The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Genealogy
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Genealogy Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Genealogy
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Genealogy My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Genealogy
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Genealogy "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Genealogy
