The Sporting Gallery - View period and contemporary fine art including oil paintings, bronze sculptures, signed fine art prints and lithographs. Features English sporting artists such as Cecil Aldin and Snaffles. Gloucestershire.
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Art, Literature and Music Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Art, Literature and Music
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Art, Literature and Music He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Art, Literature and Music
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Art, Literature and Music "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Art, Literature and Music
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Art, Literature and Music "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Art, Literature and Music
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Art, Literature and Music 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 Art, Literature and Music
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Art, Literature and Music It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Art, Literature and Music
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Art, Literature and Music Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Art, Literature and Music
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Art, Literature and Music The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Art, Literature and Music
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Art, Literature and Music "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Art, Literature and Music
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Art, Literature and Music Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Art, Literature and Music
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Art, Literature and Music "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Art, Literature and Music
