Yorkshire 1 - Includes photos taken in various places around the region.
Yorkshire Images - Collection of photographs of Yorkshire & The Dales. Includes online shop offering print sales and a guestbook.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Maps and Views Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Maps and Views
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Maps and Views
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Maps and Views
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Maps and Views I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Maps and Views
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks 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 Maps and Views The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Maps and Views "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Maps and Views "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Maps and Views
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Maps and Views
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Maps and Views "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Maps and Views
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Maps and Views
