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Clevedon Jazz Club - The oldest and longest surviving independent jazz club in continuous operation in the North Somerset area. Activities, membership, newsletter.
Clevedon Link - Social Club for single, widowed, divorced and unattached people over 30. Includes programme of events, photographs, club rules and committee contacts.
Clevedon Music Club - Meets on alternate Tuesdays at 7.30pm in the Community Centre, Princes Road. Details of forthcoming live classical music performances.
Clevedon Civic Society - Articles and pictures of the towns history together with overviews of the Society's conservation, environment and footpath groups.
Ridgewood Sun Club - Introduction to a small naturist club. Includes newsletter, membership information, photo album and links.
The Eastmond Home Page - Profile of the family with details of their interests including a guide to the town, Xena and Clevedon Town AFC.
Steve Hurrell - Online cv and personal interests including computers, England sports teams and web site design.
The Matchbox Man - Richard Hurrell provides a picture gallery of some of his 70,000 matchbox collection. Includes features of particular boxes and screensavers for download.
The History of Clevedon - Derek Lilly provides a history of the town from medieval times onwards.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Society and Culture "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Society and Culture Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin "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) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "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) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society and Culture "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen 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, Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Society and Culture Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Society and Culture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Society and Culture
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