South Tyneside Guinea Pig Rescue - Rescue home run by a woman who adopts out guinea pigs in need of homes. Photos of adoptable pigs, newsletter, a reading list and information on guinea pig care.
Familia: South Tyneside Metropolitan Council - Detailed list of all census, parish and non-parochial records held in local area. Links and contact information for many sources.
School Archives - A detailed list of all archive material held by schools in South Tyneside. Run by Tyne and Wear Archives Service.
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) South Tyneside Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad South Tyneside
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per South Tyneside At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde South Tyneside
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth South Tyneside I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken South Tyneside
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan South Tyneside "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald South Tyneside
"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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous South Tyneside Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly South Tyneside
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein South Tyneside I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous South Tyneside
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" I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) South Tyneside Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little South Tyneside
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. South Tyneside "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man South Tyneside
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) South Tyneside "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire South Tyneside
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein South Tyneside 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 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert South Tyneside
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous South Tyneside Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Tyneside
