Knowhere Guide to Denton - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Guides and Directories
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Guides and Directories
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Guides and Directories It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Guides and Directories
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Guides and Directories
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Guides and Directories A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 Guides and Directories When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Guides and Directories
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 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "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) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Guides and Directories "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Guides and Directories
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What's new? Most of my wife. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Guides and Directories Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Guides and Directories
