Very Brief History of Challacombe. - Account of the reclamation of Exmoor, relating to the pioneers of agriculture, with photographs and present day perspective by local author.
Challacombe Rows - Photographs and diagramatic explanation of megalythic stones, from a dowser's perspective, with links to others in Britain.
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Challacombe We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Challacombe
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Challacombe I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Challacombe
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 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Challacombe No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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 Challacombe
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Challacombe The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Challacombe
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Challacombe Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Challacombe
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Challacombe There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Challacombe
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Challacombe There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Challacombe
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Challacombe "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Challacombe
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Challacombe cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Challacombe
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Challacombe Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Challacombe
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Challacombe We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Challacombe
