West Yorkshire Photographs - A substantial gallery of "day-to-day" West Yorkshire photographs by Martin Bryant. Other photographers' work invited.
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
comple They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Maps and Views
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Maps and Views The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Maps and Views
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Maps and Views Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Maps and Views
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Maps and Views "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Maps and Views
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Maps and Views "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Maps and Views
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Maps and Views Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Maps and Views "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maps and Views Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Maps and Views Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Maps and Views
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Maps and Views Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Maps and Views
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Maps and Views
