Ryedale Folk Museum - Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Travel and Tourism Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
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 other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Travel and Tourism "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Travel and Tourism Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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,
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Travel and Tourism
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Travel and Tourism
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 Travel and Tourism
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Travel and Tourism
