Barnes Wallis - Biography, with emphasis on his family and personal life.
Barnes Wallis - Biography, recollections from people who knew him, and details of the bombing of the Great Dams of the Ruhr valley.
RAF Lossiemouth - 617 Sqn The Dambusters - Information about Barnes Wallis and the bombing of the Ruhr dams with his 'bouncing bombs', from the RAF squadron who undertook the task.
The Night the Dams Burst - Three part history of the RAF's brilliant attack on the Ruhr Dams in May 1943. By David Irving.
The Dambusters - The bombing of the Ruhr dams with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville "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) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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 Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
"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) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville .. 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville 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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
