Friends of Cranleigh Village - Residents association. Profile, news of proposed developments, opinions and information about meetings.
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Cranleigh Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Cranleigh
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Cranleigh We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Cranleigh
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Cranleigh A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Cranleigh
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Cranleigh This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Cranleigh
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Cranleigh Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Cranleigh
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Cranleigh The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Cranleigh
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Cranleigh Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Cranleigh
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Cranleigh Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Cranleigh
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Cranleigh "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Cranleigh
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Cranleigh That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Cranleigh
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Cranleigh What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Cranleigh
