Calvert Trust Exmoor - Offers activity holidays for disabled people, their families and friends. Includes details of accommodation, facilities and local attractions from the location incorporating the reservoir at Wistlandpound.
Fox and Goose Inn - Brief introduction to the local pub, from 'Real Ale and a Bed'.
The Fox Fun Factory - Rents out entertainment and party equipment. Includes illustrated catalogue.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Parracombe Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Parracombe
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Parracombe Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Parracombe
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Parracombe A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Parracombe
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Parracombe The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Parracombe
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Parracombe Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Parracombe
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Parracombe "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Parracombe
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 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 most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Parracombe An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Parracombe
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 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 Parracombe Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Parracombe
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 Parracombe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Parracombe
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Parracombe The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Parracombe
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Parracombe "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Parracombe
