Alison Böckh - Garden and landscape designer. Profile, qualifications, services and portfolio.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Dolton "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Dolton
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Dolton If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Dolton
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Dolton "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Dolton
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Dolton "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) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Dolton
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Dolton "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Dolton
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Dolton Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Dolton
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Dolton Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Dolton
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Dolton A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Dolton
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "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) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Dolton "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dolton
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Dolton It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Dolton
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Dolton If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Dolton
