Paull Lighthouses - A brief history of lighthouses at Paull, on the Humber, researched by the girls of Holderness Rangers.
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Paull The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Paull
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Paull Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Paull
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Paull "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 Paull
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Paull I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Paull
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Paull Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Paull
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Paull The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Paull
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Paull Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Paull
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Paull You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Paull
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Paull Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Paull
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Paull Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Paull
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Paull Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Paull
