David Spinner Photography - Wedding and general photography, plus limited edition prints. Includes portfolio and contacts.
Invicta Catering Equipment - Established local supplier of commercial type catering equipment to all types of businesses. Features product catalogue and contacts.
Saint Cosmus and Saint Damian in the Blean - A history of the 750 year old church plus news, events and contacts. This site also includes coverage of The Lambeth Conference 1998.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Blean Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Blean
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Blean Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Blean
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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" "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Blean The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Blean
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Blean Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Blean
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Blean Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Blean
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Blean I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Blean
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Blean Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Blean
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Blean It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Blean
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Blean When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Blean
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Blean In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Blean
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Blean "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Blean
