The Dairy Cottage Studio - An online exhibition of fine art and limited edition prints by William H. Jones. A variety of watercolours and mixed media.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Arts and Entertainment You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Arts and Entertainment
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Arts and Entertainment
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Arts and Entertainment It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Arts and Entertainment A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment "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) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 Arts and Entertainment
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Arts and Entertainment Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Arts and Entertainment
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Arts and Entertainment
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Arts and Entertainment The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment
