The Whittlesford Gallery - Permanent display of original art, with particular emphasis on East Anglian artists and local landscapes. Also offers sales, and services for artists and collectors.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Artists and Galleries Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Artists and Galleries
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "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) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Artists and Galleries UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Artists and Galleries
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Artists and Galleries "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Artists and Galleries
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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Artists and Galleries "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Artists and Galleries
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Artists and Galleries "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Artists and Galleries
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Artists and Galleries Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artists and Galleries
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Artists and Galleries "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Artists and Galleries
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Artists and Galleries Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Artists and Galleries
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Artists and Galleries "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Artists and Galleries
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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Artists and Galleries Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Artists and Galleries
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "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 fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Artists and Galleries The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Artists and Galleries
