Oxford Bus Museum - Includes opening times, pictures and contact information.
Tom Brown's School Museum, Uffington - Original 17th Century village schoolroom described in 'Tom Browns School Days' preserved as a museum of local history and archaeology.
Oxfordshire Museums Collections Digital Archive - Catalogue of items collected, stored and displayed by the Oxfordshire Museums Service, run by the Oxfordshire County Council. Includes pictures and photographs, archaeology, natural science, history, rural collections and information about the project.
Museums in Oxfordshire - Brief details of many museums in Oxfordshire, including any known events or exhibition information.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Museums
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Museums When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Museums
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Museums If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Museums
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Museums Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Museums
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Museums The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Museums
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Museums It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Museums
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Museums "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Museums
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Museums A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Museums
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Museums You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Museums
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Museums He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Museums "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Museums
