Buckhurst Hill Online - Shops, schools, pubs, places to go, what's what and where's where from someone who lives in the area.
Ni-Ten Wado Kai London - Features grading details, terminology, resources on books and videos, Pinan kata stances.
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Buckhurst Hill When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Buckhurst Hill
"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) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Buckhurst Hill "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Buckhurst Hill
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Buckhurst Hill Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Buckhurst Hill
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Buckhurst Hill Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Buckhurst Hill
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Buckhurst Hill I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Buckhurst Hill
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Buckhurst Hill Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Buckhurst Hill
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Buckhurst Hill If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Buckhurst Hill
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Buckhurst Hill "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Buckhurst Hill
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Buckhurst Hill "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Buckhurst Hill
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Buckhurst Hill We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Buckhurst Hill
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Buckhurst Hill The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Buckhurst Hill
