Woodside House - A country guesthouse which offers Celtic theme holidays located in Whitfield.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Whitfield The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Whitfield
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Whitfield Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Whitfield
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Whitfield The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Whitfield
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Whitfield "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whitfield
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Whitfield Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Whitfield
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Whitfield When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whitfield
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Whitfield Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Whitfield
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Whitfield "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Whitfield
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Whitfield It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whitfield
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Whitfield A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Whitfield
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Whitfield I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whitfield
