Afundit Photo Galleries - Pictures from across the region including the Tyne, the Wear, Angel of the North and Annfield Plain.
Tigers Web Site - Pictures of Newcastle, Gateshead, the North East coast and Northumberland.
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Maps and Views The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maps and Views
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Maps and Views The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Maps and Views
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Maps and Views Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Maps and Views Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "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) Maps and Views
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Maps and Views UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Maps and Views "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Maps and Views
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Maps and Views Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Maps and Views
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Maps and Views For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Maps and Views There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Maps and Views
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Maps and Views
