Ottery St Mary Parish Church - Includes photographs, news, details of forthcoming services and events. Pages for various groups including the Merry Widows.
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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ottery St Mary Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Ottery St Mary
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ottery St Mary 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 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Ottery St Mary
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ottery St Mary Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ottery St Mary
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Ottery St Mary Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Ottery St Mary
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ottery St Mary "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Ottery St Mary
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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Ottery St Mary A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ottery St Mary
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ottery St Mary "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Ottery St Mary
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Ottery St Mary It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ottery St Mary
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ottery St Mary The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ottery St Mary
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Ottery St Mary The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Ottery St Mary
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Ottery St Mary A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Ottery St Mary
