Eye Contact - A recruitment agency for the optical trade.
Hemingbrough On-line - Contains history of the village, photo galleries of past events, sports clubs, village photos and links to tourism and education in the area.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Hemingbrough I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Hemingbrough
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hemingbrough There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Hemingbrough
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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.
-- Anonymous "... 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) Hemingbrough "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Hemingbrough
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Hemingbrough Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Hemingbrough
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Hemingbrough An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Hemingbrough
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Hemingbrough There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Hemingbrough
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Hemingbrough 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. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hemingbrough
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Hemingbrough "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Hemingbrough
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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Hemingbrough Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Hemingbrough
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Hemingbrough Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Hemingbrough
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Hemingbrough Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Hemingbrough
