Appleby Town Council - General guide to Appleby, with places to eat, tourist attractions, and walks.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Appleby "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) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Appleby
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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" "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Appleby "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Appleby
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Appleby I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Appleby
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Appleby "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Appleby
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Appleby "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Appleby
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Appleby Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Appleby
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Appleby Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Appleby
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Appleby You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Appleby
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra 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 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Appleby When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Appleby
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Appleby "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Appleby
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Appleby Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Appleby
