Century Galleries - Gallery featuring contemporary art. Includes upcoming exhibitions, and contact details.
River & Rowing Museum - Museum founded in 1998 covering the River Thames, the sport of rowing and the town.
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Henley on Thames "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Henley on Thames
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Henley on Thames "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Henley on Thames
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Henley on Thames Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Henley on Thames
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Henley on Thames Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Henley on Thames
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Henley on Thames "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Henley on Thames
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Think off-center." (George Carlin) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Henley on Thames I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Henley on Thames
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Henley on Thames If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Henley on Thames
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Henley on Thames My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Henley on Thames
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Henley on Thames If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Henley on Thames
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Henley on Thames The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Henley on Thames
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Man and wife make one fool. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Henley on Thames Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Henley on Thames
