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Jeremy Turner - Abstract artist. Includes images of work, prices and contact information.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Chorlton If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Chorlton
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Chorlton I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Chorlton
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Chorlton Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Chorlton
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Chorlton Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Chorlton
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Chorlton "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) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Chorlton
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Chorlton War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Chorlton
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chorlton Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Chorlton
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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Chorlton "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Chorlton
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Chorlton A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Chorlton
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Chorlton Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Chorlton
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Chorlton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Chorlton
