Aviation in Hampshire UK 1900 to 2000 - History of aviation in county of Hampshire. Airfields, manufacturers, crash sites, museums and other aviation-related locations.
Bartley Tin Church - A rather special church within the parish of Netley Marsh on the western borders of Southampton and the New Forest.
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata History I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld History
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach History Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky History
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain History "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 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g History
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley History He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers History
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) History Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) History
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker History "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) History
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) History 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "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) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) History "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev History
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara History Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke History
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca History 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) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw History
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan History Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer History
