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Tarpaflex. - Distributors of tarpaulins, ropes and dustsheets. Also supply tarpaulin accessories to many retail outlets.
Okehampton, Dartmoor Devon - Information on the town.
The Okehampton Whines - Spoof local newspaper from Okehampton published on the net and on paper.
Okehampton Community Portal - Local information portal for Okehampton residents and visitors.
Teazles.co.uk - Casual clothing: Acorn, Alice Collins, Amundsen, Tulchan and WEK. Okehampton, Devon.
Dartmoor Railway - The Dartmoor Railway operates on the route of the old Southern Railway, between Crediton and Okehampton and on to Meldon Viaduct.
Okehampton Information - Provides information on many topics concerning Okehampton, including its history, places to visit, local news and events, local commercial products and services.
Okehampton Excelsior Silver Band - Includes profile, list of members, concert calendar, and photo gallery.
West Devon Women's Aid Outreach Project - Support information, questions and answers, advice and contacts for women in violent and abusive relationships.
Okehampton - Information about the town, things to do, places to stay, local events and activities.
Avellunau - Therapeutic counselling. Includes overviews of the techniques offered together with information about Taoist philosophy.
Age Concern - Local branch serving W Devon and Torridge. Profile, services and projects with gallery and information about volunteering.
Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Okehampton Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Okehampton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Okehampton They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx 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) Okehampton Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Okehampton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Okehampton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Okehampton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Okehampton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Okehampton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Okehampton All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Okehampton "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Okehampton Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Okehampton "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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Okehampton I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Okehampton Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Okehampton "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi "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) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Okehampton Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Okehampton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa 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 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Okehampton Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Okehampton "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Okehampton The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Okehampton
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