Views of Tyneside - A photographic archive of streets and buildings in the Newcastle upon Tyne area which is freely accessible to the public domain.
Viewfinder - Photographs of the region for purchase online.
Tyne and Wear - FreeFoto - Photograph library containing local photographs for non commercial use only.
Tyne Bridge Webcam - Includes a five-second video of most recent pictures.
Flyingfotos - Aerial photos of Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and other locations on the River Tyne and River Wear.
Newcastle Webcam - Live web cast looking at the bridge over the river tyne from BBC Look North.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Maps and Views I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Maps and Views
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Maps and Views
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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 Maps and Views We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin My other wife is beautiful. Maps and Views We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Maps and Views A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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-- Charles Pierce If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Maps and Views If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Maps and Views "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov 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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Maps and Views It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw What's new? Most of my wife. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Maps and Views
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Maps and Views "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Maps and Views
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Maps and Views "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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