Meadowbank Farm Art Gallery - Artists studio and art gallery situated in the northern lake district area of Cumbria, exhibiting contemporary paintings by Sue Glassford and other artists.
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Arts and Entertainment Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment
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 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Arts and Entertainment There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Arts and Entertainment
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. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Arts and Entertainment
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Arts and Entertainment
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Arts and Entertainment
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 Unha The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Arts and Entertainment "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Arts and Entertainment
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Arts and Entertainment
