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Worth Abbey - An English Benedictine Monastery where monks and lay-people work together to serve the needs of the world of today. Also has information on the rural parish that it serves.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Turners Hill If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Turners Hill
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Turners Hill Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Turners Hill
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Turners Hill "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Turners Hill
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Turners Hill I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Turners Hill
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Turners Hill "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Turners Hill
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Turners Hill your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Turners Hill
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Turners Hill I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Turners Hill
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Turners Hill "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Turners Hill
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Turners Hill Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Turners Hill
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Turners Hill If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Turners Hill
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Turners Hill "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Turners Hill
