Foxcity - The personal site of Chris Fox with film, music and sport news and links.
Tony Augarde - Oxford resident who is a word games expert and is a regular on BBC Radio Oxford's Jazz programme.
Freeman Online - Describes his life and travel across the UK and Europe from birth town of Plymouth to current residence in Oxford.
Gregory G. Serevetas - Personal information on this graduate student of Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford University.
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Personal Pages "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Personal Pages
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Personal Pages We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Personal Pages
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Personal Pages It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Personal Pages
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Personal Pages "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Personal Pages
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Personal Pages Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Personal Pages
"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) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Personal Pages If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "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) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Personal Pages
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Personal Pages When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Personal Pages
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Personal Pages "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Personal Pages
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Personal Pages "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Personal Pages
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin May you never leave your marriage alive. Personal Pages "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Personal Pages
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Personal Pages The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Personal Pages
