British Lawnmower Museum - Includes information on the museum along with details of various manufacturers. Also includes technical information on some of the important lawnmowers in history.
Friends of the Atkinson Art Gallery - Fostering interest in the gallery and visual arts in general. Information about the gallery, its collection, and monthly talks.
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Museums Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Museums "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Museums
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Museums "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Museums
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Museums Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Museums
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Museums If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Museums
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Museums The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Museums
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Museums It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) 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 Museums
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Museums To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Museums
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Museums "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Museums
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Museums When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen May you never leave your marriage alive. Museums
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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,
and Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Museums As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Museums
