Bakewell and Horner - Independent estate agents, surveyors, valuers and property letting/management.
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Property
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 Property Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Property
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Property No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Property
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Property Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Property
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Property It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Property
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Property I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Property
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Property Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Property
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Property
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Property Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Property
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Property Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Property
"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) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Property We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Property
