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Jeff Alvey Genealogy History Heraldry Home - The Alvey family, heraldry, Newgate prison and executions
Acland - Information and family links for one branch of the Acland Family
Allbury and Albury - Information and history about the Allbury family. Webmaster invites fellow family historians to make contact.
Annesley Ansley Ensley Heritage of US and UK - Coat of arms and genealogical information for Annesley family, and variant spellings including Ansley, Ensley, Ainslie, Andslay, Aynsley, Aynslie,Indsley, etc. US and UK. Includes American descendants of Solomon Ansley. Contact link for more information.
Mike Ainscough's website - A site devoted principally to the genealogy and history of the Ainscough, Broughton, Pomfrey and other families in Lancashire and East Anglia.
The Armitage's of Pudsey, England - Dedicated to tracing the family history of the Armitages from Pudsey in the UK. The site traces the family history from the 18th century to the present.
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White) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes A Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "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) A He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde A Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "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) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland A Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde A Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud A Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan A "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I A blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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