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Buckinghamshire Art Society - A society organizing exhibitions, lectures and other art-related events. Information about fine art exhibitions and other art related events in the county, gallery of artwork by members and links to individual local artist's sites.
Bucks21 - Gallery of artwork, including paintings, drawings, prints and 3D work. by an association of 21 professional contemporary artists within the county. Includes details of upcoming exhibitions in and around the county.
Buckinghamshire County Library Service - Official county library site. Information including local news and events, business information service, opening hours, mobile library timetables, online catalogue and community information.
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford 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. -- Crow "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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(Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Arts and Entertainment Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) 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 Arts and Entertainment We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment "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) The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Arts and Entertainment "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Arts and Entertainment "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Arts and Entertainment Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Arts and Entertainment "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Arts and Entertainment Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
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