Bourn Art Gallery - Fine Art Dealers, Framers and Restorers. A gallery offering the latest editions of works by Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Richard Tuff and David Shepherd, to name but a few. Also with online gallery.
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 Arts and Entertainment
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Arts and Entertainment The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Arts and Entertainment If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Arts and Entertainment
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Arts and Entertainment
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Arts and Entertainment
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Arts and Entertainment Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment
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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 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) "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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Arts and Entertainment
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Arts and Entertainment Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Arts and Entertainment
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arts and Entertainment In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Arts and Entertainment
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Arts and Entertainment Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Arts and Entertainment
