The Saladin Tithe, 1188 - A crucial early taxation proclamation that laid the foundation for non-land based taxation. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Provision for Peter's Pence - William the Conqueror's provision for Peter's Pence. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Church Taxation No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Church Taxation
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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Church Taxation You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Church Taxation
"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) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Church Taxation "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Church Taxation
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Church Taxation "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Church Taxation
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 Church Taxation "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Church Taxation
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Church Taxation It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Church Taxation
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Church Taxation "'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) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Church Taxation
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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Church Taxation 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Church Taxation
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 Church Taxation Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Church Taxation
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Church Taxation When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Church Taxation
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Church Taxation I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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