Then and Now of Avebury - A re-creation of how Avebury may have appeared shortly after construction; illustrated guide to its more recent history, and description of the monument at present.
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Avebury Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Avebury
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary 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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Avebury Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Avebury
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Avebury "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Avebury
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Avebury In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 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 "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 Avebury
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Avebury Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Avebury
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Avebury There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Avebury
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Avebury No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 Avebury
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Avebury "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Avebury
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Avebury "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Avebury
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "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) Avebury Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Avebury
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Avebury Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Avebury
