John's Oxford University Photo Tour - An experienced Oxford Graduate guide takes you round Oxford and the University Colleges, in a set of photographs of the City.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Maps and Views "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Maps and Views
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Maps and Views Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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. Maps and Views
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Maps and Views When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Maps and Views
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Maps and Views
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Maps and Views
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Maps and Views "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Maps and Views
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Maps and Views Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr 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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Maps and Views Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 Maps and Views
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Maps and Views The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Maps and Views
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Maps and Views "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views
