Alfred Heaton Cooper - Biographical notes from the Heaton Cooper Gallery about the famous Lakeland watercolour artist (1864-1929). Includes examples of his work.
William Heaton Cooper - Biographical notes from the Heaton Cooper Gallery about the famous Lakeland watercolour artist (1903-1995). Includes examples of his work.
Thomas Mawson - A brief biography of Thomas Mawson (1861-1933), who started a nursery in Windermere, Cumbria in the 1880's, and later went on to became a landscape architect of high repute. He published 'The Art and craft of Garden Making',which is widely accepted as the foundation of modern landscape architecture.
Millican Dalton - Biography of and tribute to Millican Dalton (1867-1947) - vegetarian, pacifist, eccentric, trogladite and mountain guide. A London insurance clerk who dropped out in 1897 and lived the rest of his life in a cave.
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A People "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach People
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 People In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. People
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde People Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey People
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford People Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery People
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board People Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert People
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington People The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein People
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull People All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little People
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations People "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb People
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton People Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) People
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin People I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. People
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins People Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger People
