Niblett - Surnames include Niblett, Jones, Ayland, Patterson, Reid, Hughes, Maloney and Evans.
Nelson, Bert - Personal pages concerning the author's Nelson family history, along with links and information relating to genealogy in general.
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) N Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies N
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is a rest period between romances. N "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) N
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "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." My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb N The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) N
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" N The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu N
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane N Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) N
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. N All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi N
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot N "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. N
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry N In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") N
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to N If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land N
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with N "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud N
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) N Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) N
