The Marquee Company of Wessex - Hire service for the local area, Somerset and SW England. Includes profile, photo gallery, typical floor plans and testimonials.
Longburton Garage - Provides car sales and services, repairs, diagnostics and MOT work. Includes a list of services, contact details and directions.
Spotlight on Longburton - Essay about the history of the village, from the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Longburton "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Longburton
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Longburton We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Longburton
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Longburton Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Longburton
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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-) Longburton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Longburton
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Longburton Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Longburton
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Longburton Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Longburton
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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Longburton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Longburton
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Longburton If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Longburton
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Longburton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Longburton
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Longburton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Longburton
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Longburton Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Longburton
