Barn Converter - Charts the progress of a 500-year-old rural barn being renovated into a contemporary living space.
AABC - A UK register of architects accredited for their knowledge and experience in the care and conservation of historic or listed buildings.
Preserve The Paramount - An appeal to save the Art Deco Paramount Theatre in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Includes history and photographs.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Preservation My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Preservation
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Preservation "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 Preservation
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Preservation A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Preservation
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Preservation Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Preservation
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Preservation It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) 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 Preservation
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Preservation Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Preservation
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Preservation If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Preservation
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Preservation "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Preservation
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Preservation There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Preservation
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Preservation Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Preservation
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Preservation If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Preservation
