The British Monarchy: History of the Monarchy - Detailed histories of the monarchies of England and Scotland from inception to 1603 and of the United Kingdom to the present day. Includes family trees of royal houses (in PDF format).
British Kings and Queens - A listing of rulers of principalities in the British Isles, extending from the Bronze Age and Roman rulers through the current reigning sovereign.
Early British Kingdoms - The history of the post-Roman Celtic Kings and Kingdoms of Island of Britain, covering maps, chronologies, Royal and saintly biographies, pedigrees, archaeology, adversaries and King Arthur
Royal History of England - A guide to the Kings and Queens that have made a thousand years of history.
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Monarchy I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Monarchy
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Monarchy Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Monarchy
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Monarchy The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Monarchy
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Monarchy "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Monarchy
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Monarchy Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Monarchy
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Monarchy The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Monarchy
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Monarchy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Monarchy
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Monarchy If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Monarchy
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Monarchy 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Monarchy
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Monarchy When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Monarchy
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Monarchy "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Monarchy
