Karoo - Portal for Kingston Upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) East Riding of Yorkshire Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley East Riding of Yorkshire
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius East Riding of Yorkshire "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry East Riding of Yorkshire
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire East Riding of Yorkshire The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous East Riding of Yorkshire
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all East Riding of Yorkshire It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard East Riding of Yorkshire
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy East Riding of Yorkshire What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history East Riding of Yorkshire
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) East Riding of Yorkshire Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) East Riding of Yorkshire
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden East Riding of Yorkshire Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens East Riding of Yorkshire
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland East Riding of Yorkshire All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe East Riding of Yorkshire
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) East Riding of Yorkshire Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau East Riding of Yorkshire
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt East Riding of Yorkshire Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 East Riding of Yorkshire
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr East Riding of Yorkshire Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis East Riding of Yorkshire
