Gainsborough Riverside - Official website of regeneration project for waterfront. Includes history of riverside and paintings for off-line sale.
Branvieh Cattle - Cattle breed information, links to other cattle sites.
Gainsborough Dot Net - Site for discussion, news and competitions about the town.
Gainsborough Town Council - Official site, giving information about the Mayor, councillors, meetings and minutes.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 Gainsborough Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gainsborough
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Gainsborough If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Gainsborough
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Gainsborough Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Gainsborough
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Gainsborough "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Gainsborough
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Gainsborough Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Gainsborough
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Gainsborough The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Gainsborough
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gainsborough Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Gainsborough
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Gainsborough If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Gainsborough
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Gainsborough It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "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 Gainsborough
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Gainsborough It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Gainsborough
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Gainsborough Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Gainsborough
