Pubs In Otley - A collection of reviews of pubs in Otley.
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-- Brendan Hills You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Guides and Directories Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Guides and Directories
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Guides and Directories Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Guides and Directories "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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Guides and Directories
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Guides and Directories
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Guides and Directories
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Guides and Directories Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Guides and Directories
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m 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. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Guides and Directories I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "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 Guides and Directories
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Guides and Directories "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Guides and Directories
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Guides and Directories
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Guides and Directories It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Guides and Directories
