Wiltshire Pictures - Landscape, architectural and aerial photographs of the county.
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Maps and Views Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Maps and Views The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Maps and Views
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 Maps and Views We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Maps and Views
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Maps and Views
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Maps and Views
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Maps and Views "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Maps and Views
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Maps and Views I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Maps and Views
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "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) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Maps and Views
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "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) Maps and Views The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Maps and Views
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Maps and Views Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Maps and Views
