Pictures of Wear - Provides an interactive photographic tour of the river Wear from source to sea .
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Maps and Views "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Maps and Views
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Think off-center." (George Carlin) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Maps and Views A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Maps and Views
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Maps and Views 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 Maps and Views
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "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) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Maps and Views I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Maps and Views
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Maps and Views
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Maps and Views Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Maps and Views
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Maps and Views When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Maps and Views
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Maps and Views Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Maps and Views
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Maps and Views Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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) 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Maps and Views
