Wylye Valley Art Trail 2003 - Describes a celebration of arts which took place over 9 days in May 2003. Includes profiles of participating artists.
King Alfred's Tower - Photographs and postcards of the tower, information on its history and location, as well as feedback and a links page.
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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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.
-- Arts and Entertainment The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Arts and Entertainment
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Arts and Entertainment
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Arts and Entertainment Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Arts and Entertainment
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Arts and Entertainment
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Arts and Entertainment "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Arts and Entertainment
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment
