Edgar Gregory's Web Pages - Lists the ancestors of Edgar and Maureen Gregory, with brief biographical details and an outline of other interests.
Jay's Genes - Personal pages and family history of Jay Glanville, plus a transcription of William Urmston Searle Glanville-Richards book of 1882.
The Gleig Family - A place to meet and discuss Gleig family history. Branches of the family now live in many countries and we are trying to reconnect them all.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink G Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White G
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett G "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis G
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness G We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James G
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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb G She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock G
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. G "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) G
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) G "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine G
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder G It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince G
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter G "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point G
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje G May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni G "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash G
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur G Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov G
