Lambourn Official Website - Pictures and Information about the picturesque Downland Village of Lambourn, including details of the famous Lambourn Open Day.
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Lambourn "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lambourn
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lambourn Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Lambourn
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "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) Lambourn blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Lambourn
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Lambourn Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Lambourn
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Lambourn In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lambourn
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Lambourn Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Lambourn
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Lambourn If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Lambourn Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Lambourn
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Lambourn "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Lambourn
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Lambourn There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Lambourn
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Lambourn If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lambourn
