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Buildings of Hampshire - Extracts from the Hampshire volume of Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England', with additional information and illustrations. By Hampshire County Council.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Architecture Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Architecture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Architecture In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Architecture
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Architecture Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Architecture
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Architecture Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Architecture
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Architecture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Architecture
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Architecture I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Architecture
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Architecture Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Architecture
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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
disg When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Architecture 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
disg "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Architecture
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Architecture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Architecture
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Architecture Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Architecture
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Unha Architecture 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Architecture
