Pitsford Hall Weather Station - An independent climatological station maintained by the Department of Geography at Northamptonshire Grammar School.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Pitsford The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Pitsford
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Pitsford "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Pitsford
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Pitsford We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Pitsford
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Pitsford >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Pitsford
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Pitsford "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Pitsford
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Pitsford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Pitsford
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Pitsford An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Pitsford
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Pitsford Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Pitsford
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Pitsford Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Pitsford
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Pitsford The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Pitsford
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Pitsford "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Pitsford
