• 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"
of Westminster then Essex
A family of nurserymen and gardeners around Westminster/Essex/Wales
Descendants also in Yorkshire.
  • James0 Runcieman (circa 1770 - circa Jun 1839)
    • Mary Burton (say 1770 - )
      • James1 Runcieman (circa 1797 - circa Jun 1839)
        • Elizabeth A. Mellor (1805 - bet. Sep 1854 - Dec 1854)
          • James2 Runcieman (circa Oct 1829 - Jul 1900)
            • Ann M. Thomas (circa 1829 - )
              • James J.3 Runcieman (bet. Sep 1859 - Dec 1859 - Jan 1932)
                • Jane B. Young (circa 1862 - aft. 1932)
          • William2 Runcieman (circa Aug 1833 - Dec 1881)
            • Jane S. Woodman (circa 1830 - bet. Jun 1913 - Sep 1913)
              • William W.3 Runcieman (circa Oct 1856 - aft. 1901)
                • Estelle Wessell (circa 1867 - aft. 1910)
                • Agnes R. Ingrouille (circa 1872 - aft. 1901)
          • Andrew2 Runcieman (circa Apr 1835 - Aug 1873)
            • Annie Hollier (circa 1838 - aft. 1871)
          • Mary A.2 Runcieman (Mar 1837 - aft. 1881)
            • Henry Maxted (say 1835 - )
          • John2 Runcieman (circa Aug 1839 - 1855)
      • Robert A.1 Runcieman (circa 1802 - May 1842)
        • Celia Ward (circa 1801 - aft. 1851)
          • Robert G.2 Runcieman (circa 1832 - aft. 1881)
            • Elizabeth Spalding (circa 1831 - )
              • Percy3 Runcieman (bet. Mar 1867 - Jun 1867 - bet. Jan 1908 - Mar 1908)
                • Harriet Carden (circa 1867 - )
                  • Percy L.4 Runcieman (bet. Sep 1891 - Dec 1891 - Jun 1950)
              • Harry3 Runcieman (bet. Sep 1868 - Dec 1868 - )
                • Ann L. Shuttlewood (circa 1870 - )
                  • Arthur4 Runcieman (circa 1891 - )
                  • Frederick4 Runcieman (bet. Jun 1893 - Sep 1893 - )
                    • Edith Vinter (1891 - )
                      • Edith M.5 Runcieman (Aug 1920 - May 1996)
                        • Thomas W. Bailes
                      • Frederick V.5 Runcieman (Sep 1923 - bet. Mar 1982 - Jun 1982)
                      • Dora E.5 Runcieman (Dec 1927 - )
                        • Raymond Jeffels
                  • Percy4 Runcieman (circa 1896 - )
                  • Lizzie4 Runcieman (circa 1898 - )
                  • George4 Runcieman (circa 1899 - )
                  • Edith4 Runcieman (circa Jan 1901 - )
          • Celia2 Runcieman (circa 1834 - aft. 1841)
          • William2 Runcieman (circa 1836 - aft. 1851)
          • Andrew J.2 Runcieman (circa 1838 - aft. 1881)
            • Betsy Porter (circa 1834 - aft. 1891)
              • Annie3 Runcieman (Jul 1859 - )
              • Ellen3 Runcieman (circa 1863 - 1954)
              • James A.3 Runcieman (circa 1865 - Nov 1933)
              • Harry3 Runcieman (circa 1867 - )
              • Frank3 Runcieman (circa 1869 - )
              • Kate3 Runcieman (circa 1871 - )
              • Alice3 Runcieman (circa 1878 - aft. 1901)
          • Alexander2 Runcieman (circa 1840 - aft. 1841)
      • William1 Runcieman (bet. 1802 - 1806 - aft. 1871)
        • Female UnknownSurname (say 1802 - bet. 1815 - 1839)
        • Charlotte Ash (circa 1817 - )
          • Frederick A.2 Runcieman (circa Oct 1840 - aft. 1841)
          • Ann2 Runcieman (Mar 1841 - )
          • Edwin2 Runcieman (Apr 1849 - aft. 1881)
            • Lucy A. Booker (circa 1850 - )
          • Walter2 Runcieman (Mar 1858 - bet. Mar 1918 - Jun 1918)
            • Mary E. Manly (circa 1853 - aft. 1901)
              • Walter E.3 Runciman (circa 1885 - aft. 1901)
              • Arthur E. W.3 Runciman (circa 1886 - aft. 1911)
              • William R.3 Runciman (circa 1888 - )
              • Charlotte A. E.3 Runcieman (Aug 1889 - )
              • George T.3 Runciman (Nov 1890 - Jul 1916)
              • Richard P.3 Runcieman (Mar 1892 - bet. Mar 1960 - Jun 1960)
      • Maria1 Runcieman (say 1805 - )
        • John Weller (say 1800 - )
      • Eliza1 Runcieman (circa 1809 - )
        • William Garvie (circa 1803 - )