Brixham Guide - A guide to this quaint picturesque fishing port in Torbay, South Devon. Directory of accommodation and commerce, and a guide to the beaches and tourist attractions.
Grenville House - Outdoor education centre, offering activity holidays for schools, children, youth groups and adults.
Brixham.com - Includes attractions, accommodation, beaches and maps.
Brixham Yacht Club - Describes its activities and facilities with results and events.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Brixham When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Brixham "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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) 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 Brixham
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Brixham Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Brixham
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Brixham Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Brixham
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Brixham When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Brixham
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 Brixham Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Brixham
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Brixham Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Brixham
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Brixham Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Brixham
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Brixham If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Brixham "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Brixham
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Brixham I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Brixham
