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The Bristol Evening Post - Local news, jobs and listings.
BBC Bristol Online - Searchable pages of local news, weather, sport, features and information on entertainment in Bristol: clubs, films and theatre. Live streaming and webcams, including extensive traffic and travel service.
The Spark Magazine - Bristol and Bath's quarterly guide to what's on in the alternative world.
South West News Online - This independent press agency supplies news, features and pictures to regional, national and international media. News, features, pictures, crimes, hobbies, cash for stories and active PR.
The Bristolian - Radical free paper, exposing corruption in the city. Archive, news, subscription details.
Bristol Indymedia - Local section of the global Indymedia collective, run by volunteers to publish uncensored independent non political news for the city: articles, photos, editorial policy, links.
Western Daily Press - Selection of top news and sports stories, business, weather and entertainment information for the West of England from newspaper published in Bristol.
Trade-It - Online version of Bristol's classified free-ads paper. Place an advert, search and browse online.
That Be Bristle - A satirical news site dedicated to life in the city of Bristol. Includes headlines, archive and local dialect dictionary.
Cotham.info - Radical e-zine for and by residents of the Gloucetser Road area.
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley News and Media Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 News and Media "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder News and Media Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) News and Media Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and News and Media Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter 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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper News and Media Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde News and Media We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "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) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) News and Media Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) News and Media "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne News and Media I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans News and Media Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to News and Media Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. News and Media Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker News and Media Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr News and Media The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates News and Media Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin News and Media We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington News and Media He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield News and Media When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz News and Media
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