The Coppleridge Inn - A country inn and hotel offering food, accommodation and weddings. Details of facilities and nearby features.
Motcombe Ringers - A ring of 6 bells in St Mary's church. Includes history, details of events and information about practice nights in the local area.
The Parish of Motcombe - Historical overview with photographs and links to census and registery transcriptions.
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 "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) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Motcombe This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Motcombe
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Motcombe Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Motcombe
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Motcombe Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Motcombe
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Motcombe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Motcombe
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Motcombe We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Motcombe
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Motcombe A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Motcombe
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Motcombe For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Motcombe
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Motcombe "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Motcombe
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Motcombe Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Motcombe
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Motcombe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Motcombe
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Motcombe 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Motcombe
