British Library - Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals Collections - National archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers, including online facsimile issues of London's Daily News, The News of the World and The Weekly Dispatch, and The Manchester Guardian.
Guardian Unlimited: Newsroom Archive - Newspaper museum for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Site includes details about the archives, education facilities for students and adults, special exhibits and events. Online history and timelines.
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Archives If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Archives
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Archives blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Archives
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 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Archives No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Archives
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Archives What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Archives
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Archives Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Archives
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Archives There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Archives
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours 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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Archives America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Archives
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 Archives Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Archives
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Archives The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Archives
"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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Archives "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Archives
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Archives I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Archives
