North Riding of Yorkshire: Index - Brief histories of the many parishes and towns of the North Riding of Yorkshire. From GENUKI.
North Yorkshire County Communities - A list of North Yorkshire county communities: villages, towns and cities with Postcode information with links to community websites.
North Yorkshire Web - Portal for North Yorkshire. Includes links to town councils, businesses and tourist attractions, and offers information on the county itself.
Esk Valley.com - Includes information about the towns and villages in the Esk Valley, plus guides to accommodation, events and weather.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Guides and Directories Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Guides and Directories
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Guides and Directories Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Guides and Directories
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Guides and Directories Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Guides and Directories
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Guides and Directories
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Guides and Directories "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Guides and Directories
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Guides and Directories The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Guides and Directories Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Guides and Directories
"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) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Guides and Directories
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Guides and Directories
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Guides and Directories A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Guides and Directories
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Guides and Directories Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Guides and Directories
