Hedon Insurance - Independent insurance intermediaries with offices in Hedon and Hornsea, A family business serving people in East Yorkshire since 1969.
UK Event Safety - Providers of fire and medical cover at events throughout the country from Hedon.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Hedon The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Hedon
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Hedon I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Hedon
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "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) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Hedon Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Hedon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Hedon I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hedon
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Hedon Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Hedon
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Hedon I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hedon
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Hedon A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Hedon
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Hedon "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Hedon
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Hedon "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Hedon
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Hedon I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hedon
Man and wife make one fool. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Hedon Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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