Stanhope - GENUKI entry for Stanhope and surrounding neighbourhoods. Details of church history, church records, village description and census data.
Weardale Museum and High House Chapel - Includes information about John Wesley and North Pennine Lead-miners. Also opening hours and location map. Located in hamlet of Ireshopeburn.
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Stanhope If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Stanhope
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Stanhope "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Stanhope
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Stanhope Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Stanhope
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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 Stanhope A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Stanhope
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Stanhope If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Stanhope
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Stanhope Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Stanhope
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Stanhope Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Stanhope
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Stanhope It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Stanhope
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Stanhope Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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" There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Stanhope
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Stanhope "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Stanhope
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "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) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Stanhope Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Stanhope
