Isle of Purbeck - in detail - All about the Isle of Purbeck from pre-history to the present day. The details on the site include maps and pictures of the area.
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 Purbeck District 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 am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Purbeck District
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Purbeck District You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Purbeck District
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Purbeck District Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Purbeck District
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Purbeck District If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Purbeck District
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Purbeck District Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Purbeck District
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Purbeck District It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Purbeck District
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Purbeck District "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Purbeck District
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Purbeck District Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Purbeck District
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Purbeck District Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Purbeck District
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Purbeck District NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Purbeck District
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Purbeck District "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Purbeck District
