Tisbury Library - Local Library, information on opening hours and services.
Tisbury Flower Group - Group of local flower arrangers. Information on the group and costs.
Tisbury History - Information about the history of the village.
Design Signs - Design signage, includes information on company and services.
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Tisbury Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Tisbury
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Tisbury Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Tisbury
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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Tisbury Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "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 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Tisbury
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Tisbury Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Tisbury
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Tisbury There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tisbury
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Tisbury Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Tisbury
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Tisbury I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Tisbury
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Tisbury "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Tisbury
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Tisbury Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Tisbury
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Tisbury Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Tisbury
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Tisbury It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Tisbury
