Great Torrington - Delightful historic town in the heart of the North Devon countryside. A perfect base for exploring the Westcountry. This site has full details of the town, including local accommodation providers and businesses.
Torrington Cavaliers - Bonfires: The gunpowder plot, The great fire of London, 1666, Torrington`s part in the civil war, and 1646.
Shan Miller - Artist and designer who paints on wooden panels. Profile, press comments and several galleries.
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Great Torrington It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Great Torrington
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great Torrington To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Great Torrington
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Great Torrington Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Great Torrington
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Great Torrington Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Great Torrington
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Great Torrington Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Torrington
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Great Torrington It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Great Torrington
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Great Torrington Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Great Torrington
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Great Torrington 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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Great Torrington
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Great Torrington If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Great Torrington
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Great Torrington 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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Great Torrington
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Great Torrington Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Great Torrington
