Ulster Watercolour Society - Provides information on members and their work, with news and details of exhibitions.
Grahame Booth - Watercolour artist gives details of watercolour workshops and online gallery.
Ian McAllister - Provides online gallery and exhibition information.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Artists and Galleries Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Artists and Galleries
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Artists and Galleries How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Artists and Galleries
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Artists and Galleries "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Artists and Galleries
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Artists and Galleries If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Artists and Galleries
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Artists and Galleries It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Artists and Galleries
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Artists and Galleries Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Artists and Galleries
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Artists and Galleries Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Artists and Galleries
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Artists and Galleries The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Artists and Galleries
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Artists and Galleries Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Artists and Galleries
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Artists and Galleries Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Artists and Galleries
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Artists and Galleries Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Artists and Galleries
