Bishops Lydeard AFC - A brief history of the club which three adult teams and juniors. Includes news, fixtures and results forum, sponsor details and links.
West Bagborough - An illustrated introduction to the village of West Bagborough in the Quantock Hills, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.
Bishops Lydeard Primary School - Staff details, gallery of pupils' work, calendar and prospectus for this Church of England voluntary controlled school.
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Bishops Lydeard You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Bishops Lydeard
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Bishops Lydeard The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bishops Lydeard
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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Bishops Lydeard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Bishops Lydeard
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Bishops Lydeard To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Bishops Lydeard
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bishops Lydeard 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Bishops Lydeard
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bishops Lydeard Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Bishops Lydeard
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Bishops Lydeard The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Bishops Lydeard
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Bishops Lydeard Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Bishops Lydeard
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Bishops Lydeard We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Bishops Lydeard
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Bishops Lydeard "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Bishops Lydeard
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Bishops Lydeard 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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Bishops Lydeard
