Folk Magic in Britain - Examines the archaeology and history of folk magic from 1200 to the present.
At the Edge Archive: Turf Labyrinths - Article by Marilyn Clark describing Britain's eight remaining turf labyrinths and two former ones, with pictures.
Folklore Society - Devoted to the study of traditional arts and crafts, customs, beliefs and folk medicine. Features membership information as well as details of the society's library, journal and awards.
The Museum of Myth and Fable - An education programme based on storytelling in The Morgan Library, Wem, Shropshire. Contact and event details.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Folklore For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Folklore
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Folklore "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Folklore
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Folklore Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Folklore
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Folklore Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Folklore
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Folklore It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 Folklore
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Folklore I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Folklore
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Folklore When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Folklore
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Folklore When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Folklore
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Folklore Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Folklore
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Folklore Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Folklore
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Folklore In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Folklore
