Bronte Birthplace - A guide to the house, and the village of Thornton, just outside Bradford, where the famous Bronte family of writers were born. The Bronte family lived here happily for five years.
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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. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Thornton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Thornton
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Thornton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Thornton
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Thornton Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Thornton
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Thornton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Thornton
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Thornton "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Thornton
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Thornton "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) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Thornton
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 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Thornton "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Thornton
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Thornton To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Thornton
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Thornton Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Thornton
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Thornton Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Thornton
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Thornton I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "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) Thornton
