Optrys - Design, supply and install commercial interiors, including bespoke furniture, especially for boardroom and reception areas.
Fulbourn Windmill - A smock windmill near Cambridge built in 1808. Stopped working in 1937 and now being restored. The preservation society supply history, photographs, restoration log and calendar.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Fulbourn Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Fulbourn
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Fulbourn Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Fulbourn
"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) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Fulbourn "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fulbourn
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Fulbourn When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Fulbourn
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Fulbourn Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Fulbourn
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Fulbourn I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Fulbourn
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Fulbourn The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Fulbourn
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Fulbourn Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Fulbourn
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Fulbourn The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Fulbourn
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol 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 Fulbourn Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Fulbourn
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Fulbourn We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Fulbourn
