The County of Pella - Regional information, maps, photographs and activities.
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Guides and Directories It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Guides and Directories
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Guides and Directories "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guides and Directories
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guides and Directories The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Guides and Directories
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Guides and Directories When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 Guides and Directories
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Guides and Directories
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guides and Directories Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Guides and Directories
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Guides and Directories Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Guides and Directories
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Guides and Directories I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Guides and Directories
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Guides and Directories There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Guides and Directories
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Guides and Directories 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
