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"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Home and Garden If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Home and Garden
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Home and Garden Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Home and Garden
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Home and Garden If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Home and Garden
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Home and Garden Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Home and Garden
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Home and Garden Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Home and Garden
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Home and Garden There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Home and Garden
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Home and Garden Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Home and Garden
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Home and Garden Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Home and Garden "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Home and Garden
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Home and Garden We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Home and Garden
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Home and Garden I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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