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Ramsbury at War - A short history of the village and its airfield from 1939-1945 by Roger Day.
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Ramsbury I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Ramsbury
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Ramsbury I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Ramsbury
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Ramsbury He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 Ramsbury
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ramsbury Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ramsbury
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Ramsbury I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Ramsbury
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Ramsbury The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Ramsbury
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Ramsbury If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Ramsbury
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ramsbury 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 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Ramsbury
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Ramsbury Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ramsbury
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Ramsbury "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Ramsbury
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Ramsbury Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Ramsbury
