Sledmere - Introduction to the lovely, picturesque village in the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Wolds.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Sledmere "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Sledmere
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sledmere Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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" Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Sledmere
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Sledmere The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Sledmere
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Sledmere Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sledmere
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Sledmere "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Sledmere
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sledmere Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Sledmere
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Sledmere Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Sledmere
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Sledmere Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sledmere
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "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) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Sledmere "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Sledmere
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sledmere We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sledmere
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Sledmere The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Sledmere
