Lifechange - Courses and counselling for marriage, relationships and personal development. Non-confrontational courses use case studies to raise self-awareness. Courses can be residential. UK based.
Ashburton - General information on Ashburton, Devon, an ancient stannary and market town on the southern fringe of the Dartmoor National Park.
Ashburton Singers. - An amateur choir singing mostly unaccompanied multi-part music, and specialising in English composers of the Tudor period.
Moorland Rentals - Residential information for landlords and prospective tenants from Exeter to Ivybridge, and Chagford to Torbay.
St Lawrence at Ashburton - Heritage centre in old grammar school. Profile, virtual tour and information about room hire.
Ashburton Cookery School - Describes its courses and facilities with dates, prices and information about accommodation.
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Ashburton The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Ashburton
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Ashburton A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ashburton
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Ashburton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Ashburton
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Ashburton One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Ashburton
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Ashburton I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Ashburton
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Ashburton "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Ashburton
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Ashburton "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Ashburton
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Ashburton Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Ashburton
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ashburton Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ashburton
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Ashburton 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Ashburton
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Ashburton This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Ashburton
