Images of England - English Heritage and the Royal Photographic Society have volunteer photographers from across England photographing their local buildings in this national survey of England's listed heritage.
Badger's Heritage - Over 1100 of pen and ink drawings of churches, pubs, cottages and village scenes from Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Surrey, Middlesex and Dorset.
England Map - Small map showing major cities and national parks.
Map of Anglo-Saxon England - Matthew White shows the kingdoms c.860 and major sites. From the Old English Pages.
Pictures of England - Examines the towns and historic buildings of England through photographs, maps and historical facts.
Lloegr - Antique maps of England, photographs and a brief tongue in cheek guide for tourists.
Digicam69 - Photos of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire by John Beres.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West 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 Maps and Views I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Maps and Views
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Maps and Views Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Maps and Views
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Maps and Views Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Maps and Views
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Maps and Views Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Maps and Views
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Maps and Views
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views "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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Maps and Views
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Maps and Views The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Maps and Views There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Maps and Views
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Maps and Views There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Maps and Views
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Maps and Views Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Maps and Views
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Maps and Views Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Maps and Views
