Great Harwood Appreciation Society - A site to celebrate all that is Great Harwood, its history, culture, countryside, chip shops and unique character.
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Great Harwood "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Great Harwood
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Great Harwood Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Great Harwood
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Great Harwood Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Great Harwood
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Great Harwood The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Great Harwood
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Great Harwood I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Great Harwood
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Harwood I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Great Harwood
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Great Harwood Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 Great Harwood
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Great Harwood "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) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Great Harwood
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Great Harwood A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Great Harwood
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Great Harwood The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Great Harwood
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Great Harwood Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Great Harwood
