Barnes of Fawkham Ltd. - Company specialising in refurbishment. Includes company profile and portfolio.
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Fawkham Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fawkham
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Fawkham I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Fawkham
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Fawkham Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Fawkham
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Fawkham Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Fawkham
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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 Fawkham Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Fawkham
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fawkham Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Fawkham
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Fawkham Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Fawkham
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Fawkham The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Fawkham
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Fawkham Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Fawkham
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Fawkham You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Fawkham
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Fawkham Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Fawkham
