Pictorial Tour of Penistone - A personal view of a small market town on the edge of the Pennine Hills, in pictures.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Penistone True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Penistone
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Penistone the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Penistone
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Penistone I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 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" Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Penistone
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Penistone This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Penistone
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Penistone My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Penistone
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull 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 Penistone If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie What's new? Most of my wife. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Penistone
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Penistone If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Penistone
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Penistone "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Penistone
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Penistone "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Penistone
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Penistone A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Penistone
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Penistone If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Penistone
