Ampthill History Forum - Offers an illustrated historical summary, an events calendar and a list of publications. Also includes links to other local historical organisations.
Ampthill - Past, Present & Future - Town guide. Includes illustrated description, history, maps and links to other local organisations, clubs and businesses.
Ampthill - Describes its history and its links with Henry VIII.
Ampthill Town Council - The official web site with services offered and details of Town Councillors.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Ampthill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Ampthill
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Ampthill As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Ampthill
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Ampthill An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Ampthill
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Ampthill If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Ampthill
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Ampthill "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Ampthill
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ampthill When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Ampthill
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Ampthill Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Ampthill
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Ampthill I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Ampthill
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Ampthill "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Ampthill
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "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) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ampthill 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Ampthill
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Ampthill Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Ampthill
