Dawson and Easingwood Family Tree - Genealogy of these two families of Driffield, Yorkshire, UK. Noticeboard, and contact details listed.
Duers in Cumberland - Information relating to the history of the family name. Other names being researched are Bouch, Armstrong, Monkhouse, Palmer, Tallentire. Also contains photographs and contact link.
Sharon's Genealogy Pages - Genealogy research in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
White Star Diary - Personal project site - seeking information related to Gertrude Alice Dugard. Project relates to diary of Edwardian English lady who travelled to USA on White Star LIne in 1914.
Dallaway Family History - Link for research into the Dallaway Family History, from their roots on the river Loire, to England and the world. Includes links to other Dallaway and Genealogy sites
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa D Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar D
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst D Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan D
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) D "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf D
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life D "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers D
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham D "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson D
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings D The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates D
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf D A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West D
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph D "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D D
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf D
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau D No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) D
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln D "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis D