Barbara-Ann Bears - Mohair bears, dragons and rabbits in small limited editions. Gallery, commissions accepted, bears to order plus bear workshops and hand dyed mohair supplies. Kent.
Billy Buff Bears by Hazel Slough - Signed bears handmade in mohair or synthetics. Gallery, bears to order, contact information and outlets.
Bosky Bears by Diane Morris - Gallery of bears, moggies, gollies and friends plus advice on care, news, shows and outlets.
HM Bears - Fully jointed bears and hares hand crafted in Yorkshire mohair, plush and velvet. Lancashire
LJ Bears - Gallery of limited edition bears including musical bears, past commissions and bears waiting to be despatched. Hampshire.
Tailored Teddies - Hand made collector bears plus teddy bear kits, mohair and accessories. Gwynedd.
Trutone Bears - One off and limited edition traditional hand crafted mohair bears. Gallery, details of craft fairs attended and contact form. Based in Somerset.
Teddy Bear Museum - Stratford, England - Museum and shop located in a heritage 16th century building in Warwickshire. Photographs and details of the collection and bears for sale.
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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
of grac Artist Bears I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Artist Bears When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Artist Bears
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Artist Bears There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Artist Bears
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Artist Bears Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Artist Bears
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Artist Bears "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Artist Bears
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Artist Bears "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artist Bears
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Artist Bears "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Artist Bears
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Artist Bears "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Artist Bears
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Artist Bears Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Artist Bears
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artist Bears Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Artist Bears
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Artist Bears I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Artist Bears
