Topsham Town - Official site which links together other local sites. Includes links to photographs, maps, history and accommodation guides.
Topsham Archive - Topsham Archive is a cottage industry offering a family history research service. Topsham is an ancient maritime port on the Exe estuary in Devon.
Topsham Swimming Pool - Outdoor swimming pool built in 1979. Photos, history, details of swimming classes and sessions, special events and opening times.
Topsham Guide - Local directory with news, business and leisure information.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Topsham It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Topsham
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Topsham The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Topsham
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Topsham I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Topsham
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Topsham "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Topsham
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen May you never leave your marriage alive. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Topsham "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Topsham
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Topsham The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 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 Topsham
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Topsham Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Topsham
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Topsham A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Topsham
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Topsham "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Topsham
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings 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 What's new? Most of my wife. Topsham You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Topsham
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Topsham "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topsham
