Bicycle Boy - Autobiography in pictures of people and places in and around Wiltshire.
Lord Bath - From paintings to writings, ideas on life, poetry and songs, photographs of family and friends, and other details.
Peter Lavery - Advertising and fine art photographer shows gallery of work from around the world. Has a section devoted to his speciality, photographs of circus life.
Steph Gillett - Independent museum and heritage consultant. Illustrated CV.
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Personal Pages
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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-- Virginia Woolf Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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-- Nathan Hale We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette Personal Pages
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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-- Indian proverb Personal Pages
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Personal Pages Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Personal Pages Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Personal Pages
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Personal Pages "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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and Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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-- Rebecca West, Personal Pages Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Personal Pages
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 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Personal Pages "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Personal Pages
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Personal Pages
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Personal Pages I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
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