Second Home Services - Provides cleaning, maintenance and security services to second home owners. Also offers holiday letting service.
Sanctuary Bookshop - General secondhand booksellers selling paperbacks, hardback and antiquarian. Also has accommodation available. Includes a free online book search, useful links and contact details.
Data Base IT Management System to suite your needs - A company offering databases tailor made to requirements. Includes details of services offered, examples of work done, terms and conditions and contact information
Coombe Street Gallery - Selling mounted prints of Lyme Regis. Includes sample photographs and contact details.
Nigel J Clarke Publications - A publisher of books, maps, tide tables, postcards and guides about for the south west.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Business and Economy Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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 Business and Economy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Business and Economy
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Business and Economy Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Business and Economy
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Business and Economy Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X 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 Business and Economy Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Business and Economy ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Business and Economy
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Business and Economy "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Business and Economy
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
