Troy House - Describes self-catering holiday accommodation at this grade 2 listed holiday house which dates back to the 1770's. With details of facilities, rates and local attractions.
Puddletown FC - The web site for this football team from the village. Includes the South and West Division 3 League Table, local statistics, fixtures and fundraising information and contact details.
The Parish of Puddletown or Piddletown - Provides a brief description and historical data about the town, including census, parish registers, and links to old maps. From the Online Parish Clerk.
Puddletown Bookshop - Buys and sells antiquarian and second-hand books, antique maps and antique prints.
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Puddletown The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Puddletown
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Puddletown You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Puddletown
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "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-) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Puddletown Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Puddletown
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Puddletown "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Puddletown
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Puddletown I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Puddletown
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Puddletown I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Puddletown
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Puddletown A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Puddletown
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Puddletown Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Puddletown
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Puddletown 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Puddletown
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Puddletown I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Puddletown
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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Puddletown 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Puddletown
