Gillian Harris - Pet, family, horse and sporting portraits in watercolours and oils. Also sculptures in clay. Photographs of work, including a foxhunting montage. West Sussex.
K'ai Men Gallery - Contemporary art. Profile, opening times and gallery with information about commissions and purchasing.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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-- Rose Kennedy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
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-- Katharine Hepburn Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crow The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
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Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
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