Oxfordshire Buildings Record - Recording the historic buildings of the county. Profile, objects and reports with membership information.
Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society - Formed in 1839 and concerned with local archaeology, architecture and history. Lectures, excursions. Publishes the annual Oxoniensia: database with contents list of recent volumes.
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Architecture Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Architecture You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Architecture Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Architecture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Architecture Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Architecture
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Architecture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Architecture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Architecture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Architecture
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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Architecture
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Architecture Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Architecture
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Architecture Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. Architecture
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Architecture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Architecture
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Architecture "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) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Architecture
