The Seen and Unseen - Quaking Houses Environmental Trust's community wetlands project to restore the ecological and aesthetic quality of the Stanley Burn. Provides details of the community, arts, and scientific collaboration .
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Derwentside All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Derwentside
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Derwentside I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Derwentside
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Derwentside Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Derwentside
"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" Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Derwentside I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Derwentside
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Derwentside There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Derwentside
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Derwentside One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Derwentside
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Derwentside The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Derwentside
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Derwentside In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Derwentside
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Derwentside When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Derwentside
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Derwentside It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Derwentside
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Derwentside "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Derwentside
