Willenhall History Society - Includes details of meetings, list of publications, street name origins, photo galleries, war-time memories, and an interactive map.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Society and Culture "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Society and Culture
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Society and Culture
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Society and Culture "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Society and Culture
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Society and Culture If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Society and Culture
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
