Knowhere Guide to Atherton - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Guides and Directories
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Guides and Directories All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Guides and Directories
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Guides and Directories If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Guides and Directories
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Guides and Directories Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "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 Guides and Directories
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Guides and Directories
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Guides and Directories Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 Guides and Directories Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Guides and Directories
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Guides and Directories A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Guides and Directories
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Guides and Directories "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Guides and Directories
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Guides and Directories He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Guides and Directories
