Greenham Common Today - A picture gallery of Greenham Common, Newbury with photos and brief historical comments.
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"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Society and Culture
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "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) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Society and Culture
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 Society and Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
"... 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) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Society and Culture Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "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) Society and Culture
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Society and Culture "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Society and Culture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
