Spean Wood - Centre for the promotion of woodworking handcrafts, running workshop courses with the aim of honing traditional cabinet-making skills.
Half-A-Moon Ar - Stained glass and wrought iron made in the Scottish Highlands.
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Crafts "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Crafts
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Crafts Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Crafts
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Crafts "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Crafts
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Crafts In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Crafts
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Crafts The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Crafts
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Crafts Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Crafts
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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Crafts Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Crafts
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crafts Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Crafts
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Crafts Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Crafts
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Crafts A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Crafts
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Crafts Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Crafts
