Newton Farm Stables - Provides horse and pony riding lessons for adults and children as well as hacking, pony club, pony days, summer camp and BHS courses.
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Gilberdyke You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Gilberdyke
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gilberdyke "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Gilberdyke
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Gilberdyke A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Gilberdyke
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Gilberdyke "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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gilberdyke
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Gilberdyke None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Gilberdyke
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Gilberdyke Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Gilberdyke
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Gilberdyke "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Gilberdyke
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Gilberdyke "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Gilberdyke
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Gilberdyke Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Gilberdyke
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Gilberdyke "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Gilberdyke
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "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) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Gilberdyke Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Gilberdyke
