Crofton Beam Engines - Description and history of the oldest working beam engine in the world still in its original engine house and capable of doing the job for which it was installed.
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Crofton Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Crofton
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Crofton Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Crofton
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Crofton Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Crofton
"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) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Crofton A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn 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 Crofton
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Crofton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crofton
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Crofton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Crofton
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Crofton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Crofton
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Crofton I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Crofton
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Crofton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Crofton
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Crofton Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crofton
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Crofton To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Crofton
