Pewter Casting Alloys - A pewter specialist who will supply tin alloys, pewter and white metal casting alloys for centrifugal or spin casting and gravity casting. Lead free and traditional solders are used in manufacture.
Smart Tart - Handmade designer handbags in antique and recycled fabrics. Photographs of bags, happy bag ladies, the studio and fabrics plus online ordering.
Vivian Olds - Organic butcher with shop, farm, abattoir and UK wide box scheme. Lists areas covered by weekly van deliveries.
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Business and Economy "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Business and Economy There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Business and Economy
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy 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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Business and Economy
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy "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) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Business and Economy A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Business and Economy
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "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 reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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) Business and Economy
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Business and Economy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Business and Economy "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Business and Economy
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Business and Economy
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy Marriage is a rest period between romances. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Business and Economy
