Bedfordshire Family History Society - Includes description and objectives, list of publications, event calendar and links to other local societies.
GENUKI Bedfordshire - Aid to tracing your Genealogy and Local History within the county of Bedfordshire. Part of the GENUKI organisation.
Bedfordshire Genealogy - Information and links about Bedfordshire, ancient and modern, to aid the would-be family or local historian.
Bedfordshire Look-up Exchange - Volunteers search genealogy and local history books on request. Includes instruction for new users.
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Genealogy If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Genealogy
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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 little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Genealogy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Genealogy
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Genealogy Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Genealogy
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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, Genealogy Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Genealogy
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Genealogy Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Genealogy Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Genealogy I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Genealogy
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Genealogy Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Genealogy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Genealogy Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Genealogy
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Genealogy This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Genealogy
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Genealogy
