Torridge District Council - Information on economic development along with contact details for various local services.
Bideford Town Council - Featuring an introduction to the town, its council and details of traders, opening times and contact information for Bideford Pannier Market
Edgehill College - An independent school which takes girls and boys from 3 months to 18 years. Overview, courses, boarding, overseas pupils, location and contact.
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Bideford blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Bideford
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Bideford Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Bideford
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Bideford Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Bideford
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Bideford Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Bideford
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Bideford "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Bideford
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bideford I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Bideford
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Bideford Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Bideford
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Bideford "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Bideford
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Bideford The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Bideford
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Bideford A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bideford
"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) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bideford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Bideford
