Selborne Pottery - Produces hand thrown and turned stoneware with rich copper red and cobalt blue glazes. Includes showroom, product and contact details.
Selborne Parish Council - The village of Selborne and its countryside has associations with the 18th century naturalist Gilbert White.
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Selborne "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Selborne
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Selborne The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Selborne
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Selborne "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Selborne
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Selborne "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Selborne
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Selborne Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Selborne A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Selborne
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Selborne Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Selborne
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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Selborne I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Selborne
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Selborne "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Selborne
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Selborne "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Selborne
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Selborne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Selborne
