Maurice Byrne, Furniture Maker - Traditional hand-made tables made to custom specifications. Information about products and construction techniques.
Merchant Allen Interiors - Offers a range of products from the interior designer Rod Banks, as well as a tea room. Site includes information about Thornton Hough.
The Smithy - Traditional blacksmith. Includes photos from a school visit.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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-- Anon. 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
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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-- Lord Rutherford Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
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-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- Lord Byron Business and Economy
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Garry Trudeau Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Business and Economy
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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-- Elsa Schiapirelli The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Business and Economy
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Business and Economy
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are, be a good one.
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-- Unknown history student The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Business and Economy
