The New Forest - A History - The New Forest - an English medieval deer hunting area created in 1079 by William the Conqueror - illustrated with photographs of its heaths, ancient woodland and ponies.
New Forest Commoners Defence Association - To support the right of commoners to turn their stock out on the open Forest and to promote their interests in the day-to-day management of the Forest, as well as in the wider political arena. Includes history, aims, projects and diary dates.
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
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shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "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) Society and Culture What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Society and Culture 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. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Society and Culture
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Society and Culture "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Society and Culture "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Society and Culture A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Society and Culture
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
