Halstead House - Farm turkey breeders, gammon, bacon and ham retailers. Converted barn for hire.
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Halstead I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Halstead
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Halstead "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Halstead
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Halstead "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Halstead
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Halstead Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Halstead
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Halstead Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Halstead
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Halstead I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Halstead
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Halstead The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Halstead
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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Halstead Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Halstead
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Halstead "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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 Halstead
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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" Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Halstead Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Halstead
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Halstead "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Halstead
