Chagford Parish - Description of the ancient Stannary town situated on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, with links to accommodation, businesses, events, news and message board, maintained by local firm.
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Chagford blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Chagford
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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Chagford Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Chagford
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Chagford I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Chagford
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Chagford At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Chagford
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Chagford The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Chagford
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Chagford "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Chagford
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Chagford I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Chagford
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Chagford Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 Chagford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Chagford Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Chagford
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Chagford There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Chagford
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chagford Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chagford
