Huxley's Experience - Falconry centre set in horticultural gardens providing talks and demonstrations, school visits, and special functions. Includes species information, a newsletter, and links to related sites.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "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) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Travel and Tourism
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm 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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Travel and Tourism "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Travel and Tourism
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Travel and Tourism The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Travel and Tourism blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Travel and Tourism "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Travel and Tourism
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Travel and Tourism
