Norfolk England Dialect - Pauline Dodd's page about the intricacies of the Norfolk dialect, including a wav file of Keith Skipper, journalist with the Eastern Daily Press and author of 'Larn Yourself Norfolk'.
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Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Dialects Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Dialects
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Dialects Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Dialects
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Dialects Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Dialects
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Dialects Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Dialects
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Dialects Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Dialects
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Dialects If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Dialects
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Dialects Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Dialects
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dialects "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Dialects
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Dialects The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Dialects
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Dialects "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Dialects
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Dialects "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Dialects
