Kristen Pottery - Studio making handmade items to commision, which include house signs and numbers, figures, tiles and murals. Gallery showing the product range and details of the design cycle.
Stocks Equine Products - Equine bedding, rug tidy and rubber stable matting. Describes its product range
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 Beaulieu "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Beaulieu
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Beaulieu "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Beaulieu
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Beaulieu Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Beaulieu
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Beaulieu And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Beaulieu
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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Beaulieu If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Beaulieu
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 Beaulieu If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Beaulieu
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Beaulieu As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Beaulieu
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Beaulieu If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Beaulieu
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Beaulieu If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Beaulieu
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Beaulieu He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Beaulieu
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Beaulieu Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Beaulieu