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History of Mansewood - Details the history of the development of Mansewood and the people who lived there, together with photographs and maps.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Maps and Views Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Maps and Views I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Maps and Views
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Maps and Views Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 Maps and Views
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Maps and Views If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Maps and Views He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Maps and Views Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Maps and Views
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Maps and Views "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Maps and Views
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Maps and Views Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Maps and Views "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) 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Maps and Views "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Maps and Views
