Thornaby on Tees - The ancient history of Thornaby on Tees through to the present day.
Thornaby on Tees - Information on the Teeside town. Includes photo gallery, maps and history.
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Thornaby Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Thornaby
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thornaby No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Thornaby
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Thornaby I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Thornaby
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Thornaby Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Thornaby
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Thornaby Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Thornaby
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Thornaby "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Thornaby
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Thornaby Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Thornaby
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Thornaby "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Thornaby
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Thornaby "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Thornaby
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Thornaby Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Thornaby
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Thornaby Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Thornaby
