Knowhere Guide to Gorton - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Guides and Directories The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Guides and Directories
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Guides and Directories Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Guides and Directories
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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? The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Guides and Directories You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Guides and Directories
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
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 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Guides and Directories
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Guides and Directories "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Guides and Directories
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Guides and Directories Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Guides and Directories
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Guides and Directories
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Guides and Directories Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Guides and Directories
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Guides and Directories Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Guides and Directories Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
