Splinter Group - Outline of work undertaken by Matthew Burt as well as details of upcoming exhibitions and previous commissions.
The Old Rectory - Details of accommodation and sample menus from bed and breakfast near Hindon.
The Lamb Inn - Information about facilities and services as well as online booking request form for accommodation and dining.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hindon The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Hindon
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Hindon If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Hindon
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Hindon 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
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Hindon
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hindon "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Hindon
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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hindon Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Hindon
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Hindon When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hindon
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hindon Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Hindon
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Hindon I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Hindon
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Hindon "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Hindon
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hindon I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Hindon
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Hindon Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hindon
