Budleigh Salterton Guide. - Guide to Budleigh and its facilities, accommodation, events, sops, and community.
Ian Woolger's Page - Personal Budleigh Salterton site, with pictures of the town, old and new. Links to favourite pages, plus own poetry and recommended shops and pubs/restaurants in the town.
Budleigh Salterton Diary - A community magazine with services, churches, clubs and events board.
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Budleigh Salterton He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Budleigh Salterton
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Budleigh Salterton When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Budleigh Salterton
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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Budleigh Salterton Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Budleigh Salterton
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Budleigh Salterton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Budleigh Salterton
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Budleigh Salterton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Budleigh Salterton
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Budleigh Salterton Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Budleigh Salterton
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Budleigh Salterton When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Budleigh Salterton
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Budleigh Salterton Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Budleigh Salterton
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Budleigh Salterton A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Budleigh Salterton
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Budleigh Salterton Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "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) Budleigh Salterton
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Budleigh Salterton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "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) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Budleigh Salterton
