A Personal Tour of Yorkshire - Describes the authors favorite attractions in Yorkshire with text, pictures and locations.
The North Pennines - A strong community theme devoted to this little known area of England - an area of outstanding natural beauty
Yorkshire Connections - Links by town to shops, businesses and community groups. Hawes, Helmsley, Ilkley and Wetherby.
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Guides and Directories The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Guides and Directories
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Guides and Directories The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Guides and Directories
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Guides and Directories "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Guides and Directories
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Guides and Directories
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Guides and Directories Marriage is a rest period between romances. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Guides and Directories
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Guides and Directories For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Guides and Directories "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "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 best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Guides and Directories "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "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) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Guides and Directories
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Guides and Directories "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
