Images of Holford - Archived photographs from the Somerset County Council.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Holford The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Holford
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Holford 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Holford
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Holford My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Holford
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Holford You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Holford
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Holford Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Holford
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Holford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Holford
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Holford "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) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Holford
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Holford Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Holford
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Holford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Holford
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Holford If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Holford
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Holford Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Holford
