Bampton in Bloom - Bampton in Devon lies close to the edge of Exmoor National Park. The town is famous for its floral displays. The site gives a wide range of information on Bampton and the surrounding area.
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"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Bampton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Bampton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Bampton
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Bampton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Bampton
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bampton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Bampton
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Bampton Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Bampton
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Bampton Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Bampton
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Bampton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Bampton
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Bampton Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Bampton
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold 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 Bampton "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bampton
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Bampton "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Bampton
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bampton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Bampton
