Wentworth Village - Site about life in Wentworth Village, nr. Rotherham
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Wentworth Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Wentworth
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Wentworth During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Wentworth
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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) Wentworth Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Wentworth
"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) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Wentworth "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Wentworth
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Wentworth I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Wentworth
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Wentworth May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wentworth
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Wentworth "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Wentworth
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson 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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Wentworth To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Wentworth
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Wentworth When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wentworth
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Wentworth Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wentworth
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Wentworth Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Wentworth
