This is Weymouth - News, weather, sport and leisure from the Dorset Echo.
Weymouth Carnival - View the history of the annual event along with a preview of this years carnival
Wykenet - The home page of the village of Wyke Regis in Weymouth
Western Relief Route - Information about the proposed road that would link Weymouth to Portland
Welcome to Weymouth - A site listing things to see and do in the town including links to a map so you can find the events.
weather.co.uk - The latest weather data and a 10 day forecast for Weymouth
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weymouth 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Weymouth
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Weymouth "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Weymouth
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Weymouth Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Weymouth
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Weymouth "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Weymouth
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Weymouth Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Weymouth
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weymouth Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Weymouth
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Weymouth It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Weymouth
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Weymouth Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Weymouth
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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Weymouth "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Weymouth
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Weymouth There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Weymouth
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Weymouth People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Weymouth
