Helmsley Arts Centre - Centre for arts in the town. Also includes local information about the area.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Helmsley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Helmsley
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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Helmsley It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Helmsley
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Helmsley "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Helmsley
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Helmsley Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Helmsley
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Helmsley One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Helmsley
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Helmsley A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Helmsley
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Helmsley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Helmsley
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Helmsley "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Helmsley
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Helmsley Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Helmsley
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Helmsley Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Helmsley
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Helmsley Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Helmsley
