Interactive Walks - Photo tours of Tavistock and other Devon location.
Traffic Webcams - From Devon County Council. Shows views of some trunk roads and some junctions in Exeter.
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Maps and Views Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Maps and Views
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Maps and Views Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Maps and Views
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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Maps and Views Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Maps and Views
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Maps and Views A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Maps and Views
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "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) Maps and Views With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Maps and Views
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Maps and Views
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Maps and Views I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Maps and Views
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Maps and Views As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Maps and Views
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Maps and Views
