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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"
Samuel is brother of Elizabeth ALGAR (see PEEK tree)
Included here because one of these descendants, my 5th cousin once removed, lives only an hour away from me here in New Zealand.
See the Top part of the ALGAR tree for how they connect
NZ Connection
  • Samuel Algar (cir. May 1730 - 1785)
    • Wilmot UnknownSurname (cir. 1730 - aft. 1786)
      • Elizabeth Algar (cir. May 1755 - aft. 1788)
        • William Medland (say 1755 - )
          • Elizabeth A. Medland (Oct 1788 - Apr 1824)
            • William Pearse (say 1790 - )
              • William Pearse (cir. May 1813 - )
              • Henry M. Pearse (Dec 1816 - Jul 1890)
              • Elizabeth Pearse (cir. Oct 1819 - )
              • Ann Pearse (cir. Feb 1822 - Oct 1823)
      • Samuel Algar (1756 - Jun 1836)
        • Elizabeth Parsons (cir. 1783 - Apr 1833)
          • Elizabeth Algar (Jun 1807 - 1886)
            • Charles Dickson (say 1805 - )
          • Ann Algar (Sep 1809 - )
            • Henry M. Rowe (say 1805 - )
              • Henry D. Rowe (1832 - )
                • Margaret I. UnnownSurname (cir. 1846 - aft. 1881)
                  • Henry A. Rowe (bet. Jan 1873 - Mar 1873 - )
                    • Florence A. Price (say 1875 - aft. 1912)
          • Samuel Algar (Jan 1812 - bet. Jan 1844 - Mar 1844)
            • Jane Lang (cir. 1812 - aft. 1871)
              • Samuel J. Algar (Jan 1838 - Feb 1929)
                • Alice A. V. Smith (cir. 1840 - bet. Sep 1886 - Dec 1886)
                  • Edith J. Algar (cir. Sep 1860 - Jun 1931)
                    • Edward Cocking (cir. 1864 - aft. 1931)
                      • Edith E. Cocking (bet. Jun 1889 - Sep 1889 - aft. 1931)
                        • Charles Smith (cir. 1884 - )
                      • John Cocking (bet. Jan 1892 - Mar 1892 - aft. 1911)
                      • Alice M. M. Cocking (Jan 1894 - aft. 1911)
                      • George A. Cocking (Apr 1896 - aft. 1911)
                      • Gladys E. Cocking (Apr 1898 - aft. 1911)
                  • Samuel J. Algar (bet. Jan 1864 - Mar 1864 - Oct 1945)
                    • Lucy Andrews (cir. 1865 - aft. 1901)
                      • Herbert J. Algar (bet. Jan 1895 - Mar 1895 - aft. 1911)
                  • Frederick W. Algar (bet. Sep 1865 - Dec 1865 - aft. 1881)
                  • Charles E. Algar (bet. Jan 1868 - Mar 1868 - aft. 1881)
                  • Alice M. Algar (cir. Dec 1870 - Apr 1955)
                    • James B. Simmons (say 1875 - )
                      • Male Simmons
                  • Stephen E. Algar (cir. 1875 - cir. 1961)
                    • Mary F. Milne (cir. 1871 - 1947)
                      • Edgar G. Algar (Oct 1901 - cir. 1964)
                        • Grace Surrey (say 1900 - cir. 1963)
                      • Herbert V. Algar (Mar 1903 - cir. 1962)
                        • Gwendoline P. McLean (say 1903 - cir. 1995)
                      • Reginald E. Algar (Jul 1904 - )
                        • Doris M. Standen
                      • Harold C. Algar
                        • Rona M. Wishart
                      • Roy M. Algar
                        • Mary E. Bloomfield
                  • Albert L. Algar (cir. 1876 - 1918)
                  • Mary E. Algar (cir. 1877 - aft. 1891)
                  • Thomas H. Algar (bet. Mar 1877 - Jun 1877 - aft. 1891)
                • Helen J. Stevens (cir. 1852 - aft. 1911)
                  • Frank Algar (bet. Sep 1888 - Dec 1888 - Sep 1960)
                  • Arthur S. Algar (bet. Mar 1890 - Jun 1890 - Jan 1893)
                  • Cecil Algar (cir. 1892 - )
                  • Olive Algar (bet. Jan 1892 - Mar 1892 - aft. 1911)
              • Frederick Algar (bet. Sep 1839 - Mar 1840 - Jun 1928)
                • Mary J. Elmes (say 1840 - )
                  • Edith J. Algar (Jan 1866 - )
                    • George A. Compton
                  • Fanny Algar (Feb 1868 - )
                    • Arthur Stubbs
                      • Arthur F. Stubbs (cir. 1891 - 1938)
                        • Camilla P. McLean (say 1892 - )
                  • Samuel J. Algar (1870 - Jan 1913)
                  • Emily M. Algar (Nov 1875 - )
                  • Charles E. Algar (Dec 1879 - )
              • William L. Algar (1843 - 1873)
NZ Connection