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BCRfm - Local independent radio station. Schedules, information, downloads and competitions.

Bridgwater Town Web - Official town website. Details of the town with information on the services and businesses to be found in and around the area.

A Virtual Paradise - Explore the town using virtual reality.

Bridgwater Mercury - Online edition of the local paper. News, sport and some local information.

The Bower Inn Pub & Restaurant - Details and information about this Inn. Downloadable menus with contact details

Bridgwater Directory - Featuring information on businesses, amenities, services, and local organisations.

This is Bridgwater - A brief history of the town, business directory, carnival news and photographs.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Bridgwater I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Bridgwater In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Bridgwater "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Bridgwater "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Bridgwater "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) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Bridgwater Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Bridgwater "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Bridgwater Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Bridgwater A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Bridgwater Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Bridgwater It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Bridgwater The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Bridgwater If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Bridgwater Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Bridgwater A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Bridgwater "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Bridgwater You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Bridgwater As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Bridgwater I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bridgwater 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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Bridgwater I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Bridgwater
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