Path Head Water Mill - Charts the restoration and history of a derelict 18th Century Water Mill. Comprehensive project diary, photo gallery and history articles about this local visitor attraction.
Saint Joseph's Catholic Church - Information on church history, service times, work of the various parish groups, photographs, mass times and links.
Tone and Shape - Toning salon located on Shibdon Road. Stockists of various health supplements and providers of stand-and-tan facilities.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Blaydon There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blaydon
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Blaydon When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Blaydon
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Blaydon I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Blaydon
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Blaydon A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Blaydon
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Blaydon "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "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) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) 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 Blaydon "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Blaydon
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Blaydon The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Blaydon
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Blaydon "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) My other wife is beautiful. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Blaydon
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Blaydon Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Blaydon
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Blaydon I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Blaydon
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Blaydon The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Blaydon
