Bolton Castle - Leyburn - Over 600 years old, Bolton Castle dominates Wensleydale. The well preserved castle, a prison for Mary Queen of Scots in 1568, is open for visitors.
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Leyburn 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 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Leyburn
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Leyburn Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Leyburn
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Leyburn I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Leyburn
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Leyburn Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Leyburn
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Leyburn There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Leyburn
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Leyburn After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Leyburn If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Leyburn
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Leyburn Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Leyburn
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Leyburn The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Leyburn
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Leyburn Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Leyburn
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Leyburn We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Leyburn
