Knowhere Guide to Hindley - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Guides and Directories UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Guides and Directories I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Guides and Directories
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Guides and Directories
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Guides and Directories A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Guides and Directories "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Guides and Directories
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Guides and Directories Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Guides and Directories "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Guides and Directories
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Guides and Directories 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories
