Worcestershire Family History Research - Can undertake all types of ancestral research within the county of Worcestershire. Also offer a 1997/1998 UK Electoral Registers Look-up Service and host the Black Country Bugle newspaper.
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Genealogy Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Genealogy
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Genealogy
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Genealogy I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Genealogy
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "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) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Genealogy Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Genealogy
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Genealogy Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Genealogy
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Genealogy Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Genealogy
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Genealogy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Genealogy
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "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) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Genealogy Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Genealogy
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Genealogy We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Genealogy
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Genealogy In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Genealogy
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Genealogy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Genealogy
