Historic Royal Palaces - Responsible for the care and preservation of former residences of royalty in England.
English Heritage - The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England. Established in 1983 to offer advice and give grants for the preservation of historically important buildings in England.
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Buildings "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Buildings
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Buildings When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Buildings
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Buildings A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Buildings
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Buildings Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Buildings
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Buildings Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Buildings
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Buildings In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Buildings
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Buildings Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Buildings
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Buildings Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Buildings
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Buildings The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Buildings
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buildings Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Buildings
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Buildings I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Buildings
