Chris and Carole Bailey - Personal pages with interests and local photographs and information.
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Upper Beeding The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Upper Beeding
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Upper Beeding The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Upper Beeding
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Upper Beeding Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Upper Beeding
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "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) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Upper Beeding If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Upper Beeding
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Upper Beeding "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Upper Beeding
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Upper Beeding An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Upper Beeding
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Upper Beeding The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Upper Beeding
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Upper Beeding We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Upper Beeding
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Upper Beeding The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Upper Beeding
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Upper Beeding My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Upper Beeding
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Upper Beeding It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Upper Beeding
