The O'Dare Family Website - Genealogy information about the O'Dare family along with some humor, games and puzzles, e-postcards and issues that are important to us. A place for family and friends to keep in touch.
Osborn - Personal family history by Bob Osborn, containing descendancy chart, timeline, photographs, contact link.
Overend - Family tree of the Overends of Kildwick in Craven. Details of other genealogy researchers throughout the world.
oxbrow500 - Ancestry of the oxbrow family from the 16th century to the present day. Six strings that we want to connect. Showing family details and contact link.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity O Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) O
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley O If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman O
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 O When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( O
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous O Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz O
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw O "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) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 O
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi O Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh O
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings O My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer O
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick O The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius O
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa O While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life O
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) O "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith O
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr O "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell O
