Brainwave - Information on the work of this Huntworth based charitable centre for rehabilitation and development of brain injured children. Online donation facility.
Bridgwater YMCA - Information on services provided, location and contact details.
Bridgwater Youth Work - Provides information on the activities and facilities of the towns youth team.
Bridgwater-Czech/Slovak Friendship Society - Formed to promote understanding, friendship and mutual co-operation of the peoples of Somerset and the former Czechoslovakia, in the wake of the ending of the cold war.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Society and Culture Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Society and Culture Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Society and Culture
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Society and Culture Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Society and Culture
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 Nietzsche You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Society and Culture You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Society and Culture
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Society and Culture If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Society and Culture
