Humberside Police - Includes a drugs hotline and current news and a section on the Internet Watch Foundation.
BBC Radio Humberside - Serving the East Riding of Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.
Humberside Oesophageal Support Group - Support and information for people with oesophageal cancer, Barrett's oesphagus, severe acid reflux or similar problems with swallowing, eating and digestion.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Humberside My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Humberside
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Humberside "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) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Humberside
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Humberside If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Humberside
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Humberside My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Humberside
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Humberside If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Humberside
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Humberside "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Humberside
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "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) Humberside If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Humberside
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Humberside In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Humberside
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Humberside As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Humberside
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Humberside The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "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) Humberside
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Humberside It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Humberside
