David Mitchell's Landcraft - Offers off-road driving tuition, organises events, and mail order models, books, and accessories.
R H Roberts Cycles - Bike shop catering for the mountain biking and leisure cyclist, that also offers mountain bike hire, repairs, spares and accessories. Agents for Giant & Saracen Cycles.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Business and Economy Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Business and Economy
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 Business and Economy 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Business and Economy Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Business and Economy
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Business and Economy There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Business and Economy
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Business and Economy If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Business and Economy The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Business and Economy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Business and Economy
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Business and Economy It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Business and Economy
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Business and Economy I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Business and Economy
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Business and Economy
