Portmeirion - Complete catalogue of Portmeirion Pottery designs and patterns from 1960-1972.
Gouda-Design - For collectors of Gouda Dutch pottery. History, factories, designs and links to other collectors.
Moorcroft Art Pottery - Official site manufacturer of ranges of giftware, tablelamps and collectors' tea sets; hosts the Collectors Club.
Szeiler Pottery Gallery - Picture Gallery of Szeiler pottery organised by model number. A collectors reference, you can submit your own images if not already listed.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Pottery "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Pottery
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Pottery "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Pottery
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Pottery "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
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-- Howard Aiken Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Pottery
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Pottery Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pottery
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Pottery Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pottery
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 Pottery Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Pottery
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Pottery Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Pottery
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Pottery "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Pottery
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Pottery There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Pottery
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Pottery "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Pottery
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Pottery "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Pottery
