Stalbridge.net - A not-for-profit community web site for the people and businesses of the village of Stalbridge. Includes details of businesses, organisations, activities and events.
Fudges Bakery - A bakery making quality biscuits. Includes information about the Fudges Club, company, product and contact details.
The Old Rectory - A residential care home for the elderly. Includes details about the facilities and services with samples of menus available to the residents and contact information.
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Stalbridge It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Stalbridge
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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Stalbridge Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Stalbridge
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Stalbridge Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Stalbridge
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Stalbridge If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Stalbridge
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Stalbridge "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) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Stalbridge
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Stalbridge We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Stalbridge
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Stalbridge When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stalbridge
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Stalbridge After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Stalbridge
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Stalbridge There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Stalbridge
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stalbridge I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Stalbridge
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Stalbridge When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Stalbridge
