Dyrons Leisure Centre - Provides details of the sports facilities, clubs and swimming pool. Opening times, membership and course details.
The Blot - Residents action group explaining their concerns about the development of a laundry. Includes news, pictures and opinions about the planning process of the local council.
Gaia House - Buddhist centre. Offers Insight Meditation (known as Vipassana in the Buddhist tradition) and Zen retreats throughout the year. Pages include information on the teachers and their books and tapes.
Andi Bowes - Personal website, including images, online CV, and contact information.
Stover Golf Club - Describes the club and its history with course and membership information and newsletter.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Newton Abbot Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Newton Abbot
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Newton Abbot The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Newton Abbot
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Newton Abbot At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Newton Abbot
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Newton Abbot There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Newton Abbot
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Newton Abbot The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Newton Abbot
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Newton Abbot What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Newton Abbot
"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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Newton Abbot If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Newton Abbot
"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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Newton Abbot If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Newton Abbot
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Newton Abbot Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Newton Abbot
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Newton Abbot "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is a rest period between romances. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Newton Abbot
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Newton Abbot Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Newton Abbot
