A Short History of Gateshead - Full text of an out-of-print book written by IC Carlton on behalf of Gateshead Council. Covers basic history plus detailed statistics including population since 1548.
History of Gateshead - Information from Celtic times to the 19th Century. Also details of local landmarks and famous residents.
Gateshead Local Studies On-line - The Council's local history pages with photos, information and details of primary sources.
Familia: Gateshead - Detailed list of all census, parish and non-parochial records held in local area. Links and contact information for many sources.
Brian Pears - Local historian based in Low Fell with special interest in the North East during the Second World War.
History of Lamesley - Small village on the edge of Gateshead. Details of census information plus church, local and military records.
Gateshead Genealogy - Historical records, links and general information about the area.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous History Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne History
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein History Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise History
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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as History "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous History
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin History Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo History
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses History Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 History
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn History Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe History
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, History The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch History
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor History Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show History
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) History "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese History
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb History I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde History
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst History "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) History
