Penny Elliott - Handpainted tiles for kitchens or bathrooms, includes several photographs.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Hallaton "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Hallaton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Hallaton A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "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) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Hallaton
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Hallaton The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Hallaton
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Hallaton Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Hallaton
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Hallaton Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Hallaton
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Hallaton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Hallaton
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Hallaton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hallaton
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Hallaton And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Hallaton
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Hallaton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Hallaton
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Hallaton The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Hallaton
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Hallaton History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Hallaton
