Teesdale 2000 - Directory of resources for the district including news, photographs, links to individual towns and villages, local business, and tourism .
Teesdale Online - Internet service provider, web design and hosting . Includes a directory of links including rail times, and a telephone finder.
ECN Terrestrial Site - Moor House - Integrated long-term environmental monitoring network. Includes information on the network, summary data and real-time access to the weather station at Moor House NNR.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Teesdale The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Teesdale
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Teesdale A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Teesdale
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Teesdale Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Teesdale
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Teesdale "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Teesdale
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Teesdale He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Teesdale
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Teesdale Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Teesdale
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Teesdale "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Teesdale
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Teesdale I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Teesdale
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Teesdale You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Teesdale
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Teesdale Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Teesdale
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Teesdale When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Teesdale
