The Weardale Railway - Project to bring a rail service back to the Wear Valley. Details of progress, ownership, vision and photo gallery.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Transport A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Transport
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transport "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Transport
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Transport All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Transport
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "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' Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Transport "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 Transport
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Transport Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Transport
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Transport In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Transport
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 Transport Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Transport
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Transport May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Transport
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Transport "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Transport
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Transport Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Transport
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Transport Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Transport
