Silchester Roman Town - The University of Reading runs a training excavation here every summer. Clickable map of the Roman town showing excavations, photographs, background, interim reports, reconstruction.
Calleva Film Project - Video project produced and directed by Sean Caveille, and shown by the Archaeology Channel.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Silchester The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Silchester
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Silchester Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Silchester
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Silchester Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Silchester
"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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Silchester Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Silchester
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Silchester "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Silchester
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Silchester The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Silchester
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Silchester There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silchester
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Silchester Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Silchester
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Silchester God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Silchester
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Silchester Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Silchester
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Silchester "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Silchester
