Pat Maycroft - Local photographer, lecturer and artist working in the county. Examples of her work and extracts from publications.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Photography Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Photography
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Photography When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Photography
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Photography It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Photography
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Photography Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Photography
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Photography I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Photography
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Photography Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Photography
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Photography The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Photography
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Photography We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Photography
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Photography Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Photography
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Photography Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Photography
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Photography Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Photography
