Wythall History Society - Information about the society and its activities, photo gallery, and 1838 tythe maps.
Wythall Parish Church - Detailed information about the life, worship, and vision of this church.
Wythall Radio Club - Includes club information, photos and details of past events, contest results, and newsletter archive.
Wythall Photographic Society - Gives programme of meetings and competitions, contact and location details and several galleries of members' work in different media.
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Society and Culture
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "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) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture
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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Society and Culture blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Society and Culture
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 Society and Culture If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh 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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Society and Culture "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
