Maplehurst Chicken Club - Describes this informal organisation with show results and contact details.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Maplehurst What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Maplehurst "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.) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Maplehurst
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Maplehurst 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Maplehurst
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Maplehurst Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Maplehurst
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Maplehurst I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Maplehurst
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Maplehurst In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Maplehurst
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Maplehurst A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Maplehurst
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Maplehurst Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Maplehurst
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Maplehurst Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Maplehurst
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Maplehurst Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Maplehurst
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Maplehurst Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Maplehurst
