1917 Proclamation - Issued by King George V declaring that the Royal Family would be henceforth known as the House of WIndsor rather than Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
The Windsor Great Park - The royal history of the Great Park in Windsor with other useful links from the Crown Estate.
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire Windsor A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Windsor
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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- Oscar Wilde Windsor Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Windsor
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Windsor The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black Windsor
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Windsor "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Windsor
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Windsor There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Windsor
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Windsor When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Windsor
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Windsor "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Windsor
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Windsor Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "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 Windsor
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Windsor The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Windsor
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Windsor Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Windsor
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Windsor With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Windsor
