David Bradley - Collection of photographs of London trolleybuses, by route, with history.
Eamonn's British Bus - Includes photographs of vehicles taken between 1973 and 2002.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein History "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine History
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais History The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb History
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu History "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A History
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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) History Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa History
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde History The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen History "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright History
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston History A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin History
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) History War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig History
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire History "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt History
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 History The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle History
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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, A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West History You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) History
