West Dorset - West Dorset District Council's official tourism site. The site contains the information that you need to book a holiday in this part of Dorset. Also includes page where you can request a paper copy of their brochure.
West Dorset District Council. - Includes information for residents, businesses and tourism as well as services available from the local authority.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken West Dorset District Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins West Dorset District
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William West Dorset District Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) West Dorset District
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton West Dorset District This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender West Dorset District
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "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) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle West Dorset District 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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) West Dorset District
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) West Dorset District If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain West Dorset District
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde West Dorset District "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) West Dorset District
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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" "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman West Dorset District 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. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw West Dorset District
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein West Dorset District The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune West Dorset District
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) West Dorset District "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) West Dorset District
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley West Dorset District Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain West Dorset District
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright West Dorset District Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford West Dorset District
