Quote Collection (page 3)

Favourite Sayings - Never burn a candle at both ends
Black and white lantern slide of a man scratching his head and holding a candle which is burning at both ends.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Favourite Sayings - One Hunchback laughs at another
Black and white lantern slide of a round shouldered bent man pointing at another gentleman. Painted background of railings.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Favourite Sayings - If the Cap fits, wear it
Black and white lantern slide of scene showing three persons in a hat shop (painted background). An old gentleman, a young boy trying on a hat and a sales person

Favourite Sayings - He looks one way and pulls the other
Black and white lantern slide of a man leaning over the prow of a ship calling to another man in a rowing boat which is about to collide with the ship. Painted scenery of waves surround them

Favourite Sayings - Beware of man-traps
Black and white lantern slide of a fox crouched in front of an animal trap.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Colelction. An old fox is shy of a trap. Lantern slide creations of C. H

Favourite Sayings - The horse with a halter
Black and white lantern slide of a man standing holding a horse which is wearing a halter. The painted background shows a man chasing after a horse.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Favourite Sayings - Mind your own business
Black and white lantern slide of a man sitting at a dinner table looking at his finger while a woman stands and gestures with her hand.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Favourite Sayings - The Cats foot
Black and white lantern slide of a woman shaking her fist at a man holding a jug. Painted background shows a pub which the man may be about to enter.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

WWI Poster, Prime Ministers speech
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, quoting from a speech by the Prime Minister at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1914). It is going to e a long drawn-out struggle... Date: 1915

WWI Poster, No price can be too high
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, quoting a speech by the Prime Minister: No price can be too high when honour and freedom are at stake. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, War Loan
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, War Loan, quoting from a speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: circa 1916

Programme of Suffrage Week. Programme of N.U.W.S.S (Croydon Branch) Suffrage Week, commencing Tuesday 9th November at Pembroke Hall, Croydon

Suffragette in Snow Votes for Women. A lone suffragette holding a banner stands in the snow and ice. The caption reads, And loud that clarion voice replied

Portrait of Daniel Webster, postcard
Portrait of Daniel Webster. God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Date: 1908

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

British Army camp in the Castle Yard, Carlisle Castle, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The card bears a really quite remarkable (vaguely patriotic) poetic quote by Hugh Falconer Date: circa 1910s

Victory at the End of World War One
Postcard commemorating the Victory at the end of the Great War in 1918, featuring an inset portrait of King George V. " He holds no parley with unmanly fears

The Divided City, 1895 Date: 1895

Policeman stops a man with cart
" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Some potentially illegal night manoeuvres are thwarted by

Italian Patriotic Card - Request for funding
Patriotic card which highlights the need for money during wartime and how every member of Italian society needs to do their bit and keep the national blood flowing through savings

Two ice skaters - one falling over
Quite from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: " He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural." The perfect accompaniment to this humorous cartoon postcard depicting a suave

Xmas. Lady in moonlight. " Kind Fortune smiles, and she Hath yet in store for thee Some great felicity." - Shakespeare. circa 1902

Xmas. Girl with holly by Ethel Parkinson. " Accept that Greeting dear to friends, The welcome of the heart" - A Macfarren. circa 1902

War Against Japan
Patriotic British poster issued during World War Two with a tank carrying a British Flag and a quote from Winston Churchill stating that

Musical Scene around the Piano
A peaceful family scene with a mother playing the piano, her son the violin, and her daughter leaning by the piano and watching

Abraham Kastner - 1
ABRAHAM GOTTHELF KASTNER or Kaestner) German mathematician and composer of epigrams, none of which I am in a position to quote

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