Jeaffreson - Family history from Marie Therese Jeaffreson's 1922 book 'Pedigree of the Jeaffreson Family with Notes and Memoirs'
Steve & Pauline Jones' Family History - Family History of Steve and Pauline Jones of Yorkshire, also containing the surnames Bradbury, Chapple, Harris, Johnson, Jones and Parris.
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) J Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. J
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous J I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick J
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) J It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes J
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln J "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I J
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken J Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton J
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody J blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 J
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and J Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt J
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) J Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to J
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) J Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke J
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld J All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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 J
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to J "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons J
