Axbridge - Community information and business links, including details of the village pageant held in 2000.
Cheddar Classics - Suppliers of snooker cue cases, snooker cues and a full range of snooker accessories. Also features news and information on players.
Compton House - Period country house at Axbridge, offering bed and breakfast accommodation and facilities for weddings, private parties and business meetings.
Axbridge Caving Group - Details of members caving trips in news and pictures, contact and meeting information.
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Axbridge I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Axbridge
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Axbridge Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Axbridge
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Axbridge 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Axbridge
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Axbridge I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Axbridge
"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) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Axbridge "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Axbridge
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Axbridge "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Axbridge
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Axbridge Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Axbridge
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Axbridge "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Axbridge
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Axbridge It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Axbridge
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Axbridge Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Axbridge
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Axbridge Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Axbridge
