Newcastle upon Tyne - A reference of photographs by Bill Harle taken over many years of old pubs and buildings in and around the city.
Photographs of Newcastle upon Tyne - University of Sunderland photographs of the city. Includes the Castle Keep and St Nicholas' Cathedral and the Quayside and Law Courts.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Maps and Views Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Maps and Views
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Maps and Views
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Maps and Views
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Maps and Views Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Maps and Views
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Maps and Views
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Maps and Views Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Maps and Views
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Maps and Views A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
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? Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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. Maps and Views If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Maps and Views
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" It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Maps and Views "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maps and Views Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views
