The Phillips Family Tree - All the information that is known on the Phillips family tree, starting in Haverfordwest.
The Williams Family Tree - A growing history of the Williams family from Aberdovey in North Wales. Family trees now include Barker, Barry, Bish, Gingell, Jones and Wicks/Weeks.
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Family Trees Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Family Trees
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Family Trees "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Family Trees
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Family Trees "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Family Trees
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Family Trees "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Family Trees
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Family Trees Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Family Trees
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Family Trees This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "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) Family Trees
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Family Trees As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Family Trees
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Family Trees 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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Family Trees
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Family Trees You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Family Trees
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Family Trees As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Family Trees
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Family Trees One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Family Trees
