Nice Nostalgia Archive - Photos and information on cultural greats and not-so-greats from the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rent Strikes - Research into the history of the tenants movement. It features two local studies of rents strikes at key stages of the formation of the English tenants movement.
A Celebration of a Tonic to the Nation - Resource from the Festival of Britain Society which describes the 1951 exhibition. Includes links to other "worlds fairs" and current millennium events.
Paddle Steamer Ryde Website - Documenting the history of the paddle steamer Ryde (Queen) and providing a place for people to share their memories and their support for her future.
1960s British Pop Culture - The music, groups, stars, films, tv and events of Britain in the sixties.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Twentieth Century Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Twentieth Century
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Twentieth Century "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Twentieth Century
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Twentieth Century "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Twentieth Century
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Twentieth Century "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Twentieth Century
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Twentieth Century The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Twentieth Century
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Twentieth Century If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Twentieth Century
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Twentieth Century The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Twentieth Century
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Twentieth Century Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Twentieth Century
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Twentieth Century When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Twentieth Century
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Twentieth Century Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Twentieth Century
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Twentieth Century How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Twentieth Century
