Historic Chapel Street - Virtual tour of historic Chapel Street. Photographs and comments on its buildings, guide to dining, shopping, accommodation and churches.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Travel and Tourism Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Travel and Tourism
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Travel and Tourism
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Travel and Tourism I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
