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Matthew of Bristol - A reconstruction of John Cabot's famous ship and its journey to Newfoundland 500 years ago. History and information.
Bristol Zoo Gardens - Both a tourist attraction and a conservation education charity, aiming to conserve wildlife and its habitats. Information for visitors and on its conservation and education work.
SS Great Britain - Dedicated to the SS Great Britain, built by Isambard Brunel, which had a huge impact on world travel, engineering and shipbuilding; Now in Dry Dock in Bristol. 'Official' site of the restoration project.
Horse World - A visitor centre for one of the UK's largest horse rescue charities with over 200 horses: events, location map, opening hours, charges.
SS Great Britain - Unofficial website of the history and restoration of the ss Great Britain: links, map, conservation.
Forest of Avon - An area of 221 square miles around Bristol where a partnership of like minded individuals and organisations are working together to transform the local landscape.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Attractions "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Attractions Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. 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(Emiliano Zapata) Attractions Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Attractions He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. 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After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Attractions I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Attractions He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Attractions For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Attractions They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Attractions When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Attractions Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Attractions Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Attractions "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." 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