Barnstaple and District Round Table - Meeting times, calendar of events, community service projects and club contacts for this non profit making organisation.
The Shirwell Page. - Shirwell village in North Devon, just outside Barnstaple.
Barnstaple - Official Web site for Barnstaple Town Council.
Barnstaple Nightlife - Guide to night time entertainment in Barnstaple, North Devon.
Multi Story Theatre Company - Touring classic and new plays to adult and young audiences plus workshops for schools, colleges and businesses. Information on their productions and contact details.
BSL Roadshow - Mobile disco roadshow and karaoke. Includes details of services and contact form.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Barnstaple Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Barnstaple
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Barnstaple Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Barnstaple "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Barnstaple
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Barnstaple There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Barnstaple
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Barnstaple The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Barnstaple
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 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Barnstaple "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Barnstaple
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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Barnstaple When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Barnstaple
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Barnstaple Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Barnstaple
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "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) Barnstaple Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Barnstaple
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Barnstaple The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Barnstaple
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde May you never leave your marriage alive. Barnstaple Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Barnstaple
