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.
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.
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"
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Dad's side of the tree - ancestors and their siblings
Anyone with any photos to contribute where a "set" needs to be completed?