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Hometown Atrocities - The history of the Exeter, UK punk scene with band information, pictures, year zero, and links.

Punk Connections in the UK - Listing of gigs, releases, labels, distros, zines, musicians, practice spaces, venues, and other punk music resources.

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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Punk Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Punk America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Punk Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Punk "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Punk During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Punk Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Punk If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Punk Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Punk Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Punk Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Punk I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Punk A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Punk They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Punk Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Punk They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Punk People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Punk For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster "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) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Punk What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Punk Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Punk "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Punk 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Punk
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