Craig Beecham's Personal Page - Florida, motorbikes, YSCA Music School, Malton floods and plans for motorbiking around Europe for a few months. Pictures and calendar. From a 21-year-old ex-student (Birmingham) in Malton.
Malton & Norton - A Local community information portal for the two towns and outlying villages. Includes news, events, community projects and business listings.
Soroptimist International Malton and District - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Includes club history, news, projects and calendar.
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Malton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Malton
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Malton "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Malton
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Malton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Malton
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Malton This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Malton
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Malton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Malton
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Malton Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Malton
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Malton The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Malton
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Malton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Malton
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Malton They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Malton
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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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 Malton I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Malton
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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Malton "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Malton
