GHI 4x4 Importers - Imports, converts and registers used Japanese four wheel drive vehicles purchased at auction in Japan. Details of cars for sale. Based at Shap.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Motoring
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Motoring Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Motoring
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "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) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Motoring A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Motoring
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Motoring The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Motoring
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Motoring Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Motoring
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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Motoring To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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' Motoring
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Motoring I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Motoring
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Motoring "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Motoring
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
[text_start]
"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Motoring "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Motoring "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Motoring
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Motoring "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) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Motoring
