Hampshire Genealogical Society - Assisting researchers through membership, by publishing census indexes, records of memorial inscriptions and providing special search services.
Wessex Family History Ltd - Fully transcribed genealogy data for Hampshire/Sussex from Parish Records, 1841 census returns, and obsolete local history publications. Also local images and beginners guide to tracing ancestry.
May Family History - The history of the May Family of North-East Hampshire and Mid-Berkshire, including family trees, records, wills, monumental inscriptions, detailed studies, memories, people and places.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Genealogy "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Genealogy
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Genealogy Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Genealogy
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Genealogy The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Genealogy
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Genealogy "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Genealogy
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Genealogy Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Genealogy You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Genealogy
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Genealogy Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Genealogy
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Genealogy Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Genealogy Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Genealogy
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Genealogy We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Genealogy
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Genealogy Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy
