Cotswolds Photo Library - A professional photo library devoted to pictures of the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire.
Cotwold Maps - Offers free maps of places in the Cotswolds, showing the locations of pubs, hotels, places of interest, water-sports, angling and village stores.
Gloucestershire Photo Library - Original images of Gloucestershire by John Wilkes. There are a large number of pictures that include some of the best known sights in the county.
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Maps and Views If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Maps and Views
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Maps and Views
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Maps and Views Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Maps and Views He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Maps and Views A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Maps and Views
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Maps and Views "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Maps and Views
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Maps and Views There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Maps and Views
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Maps and Views Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Maps and Views Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 Maps and Views
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Maps and Views Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Maps and Views
