Four Counties Family History Research - Describes services of Frances Bevan, a Swindon based historian who undertakes family history research across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire.
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Genealogy "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) Genealogy
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca 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 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Genealogy Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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, Genealogy
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Genealogy There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Genealogy
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Genealogy When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Genealogy
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Genealogy "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Genealogy
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Genealogy The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Genealogy When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Genealogy
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Genealogy The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Genealogy
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Genealogy The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Genealogy
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Genealogy Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Genealogy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Genealogy Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Genealogy
