North Humberside Riding Centre - BHS Approved Riding School offers rides along quiet country lanes, by-ways, plus miles of sandy beach and riverbanks. Lessons in large indoor school.
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Easington Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Easington
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Easington Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "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) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Easington
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Easington "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Easington
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Easington "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Easington
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Easington You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Easington
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Easington Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Easington
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Easington Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Easington
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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Easington Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Easington
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Easington Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Easington
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Easington Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Easington
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Easington Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Easington
