The Toyshop - Branches in Trowbridge and Melksham. Includes illustrated catalogue indexed by category. With location map.
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Shopping 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) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Shopping
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Shopping I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Shopping
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Shopping "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Shopping
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Shopping "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Shopping
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Shopping blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Shopping
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Shopping Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Shopping
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Shopping To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Shopping
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Shopping NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Shopping
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Shopping "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Shopping
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Shopping Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Shopping
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Shopping "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Shopping
