Hobbycraft - Site for Europe's biggest art and craft superstores, with shops across England. Site includes store locator, project ideas and corporate information.
Jane Asher Sugarcraft - Jane`s new Sugarcraft Shop in Chelsea, London selling cake decoration equipment. Online order forms available.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "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." "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Hobbies "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Hobbies
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Hobbies It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Hobbies
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Hobbies An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hobbies
"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) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Hobbies He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Hobbies
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hobbies "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Hobbies
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Hobbies "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Hobbies
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 Hobbies Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Hobbies
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Hobbies My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Hobbies
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hobbies I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Hobbies
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Hobbies Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Hobbies
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Hobbies "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Hobbies
