Varrall Family History - Genealogical data and selective family history of our own Varrall and Newbatt forebears, with some Hedges, Owen, and Marsh interests. Areas covered include Kent, London/Middlesex, Aston/Warwickshire, Orielton/Pembroke.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter V Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee V
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 V In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George V
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "... 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) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) V "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. V
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) V We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "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) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken V
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh V As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman V
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern V "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a V
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s V Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca V
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac V You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac V
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec V Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) V
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers V 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 My other wife is beautiful. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason V
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) V "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings V
