Millican Dalton - Biography of and tribute to Millican Dalton (1867-1947) - vegetarian, pacifist, eccentric, trogladite and mountain guide. A London insurance clerk who dropped out in 1897 and lived the rest of his life in a cave.
Millican Dalton - Professor of Adventure - The life and times of the pioneering rock climber, professional camper and mountain guide who quit his job in the commercial world to seek romance and freedom.
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Borrowdale The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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) Borrowdale
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Borrowdale blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Borrowdale
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Borrowdale "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Borrowdale
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Borrowdale Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Borrowdale
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Borrowdale Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Borrowdale
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Borrowdale Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Borrowdale
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Borrowdale Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Borrowdale
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Borrowdale Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Borrowdale
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Borrowdale "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Borrowdale
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Borrowdale The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Borrowdale
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "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) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Borrowdale "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) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Borrowdale
