Dulverton - Guide to this Exmoor town, with details of shops, accommodation, restaurants, businesses and forthcoming events.
Rock House Inn Darts Team - Picture of the team and details of their performance in the local Dunkery League.
Music at All Saints - Promotes quality music in the local community through a varied programme of concerts. Includes details of past and future performances.
Gabriella Falk - Artist specialising in commissioned textile works and architectural glass. Profile, exhibitions, residencies and consultancy.
Brushford Executive Travel - Profile and contact details for business offering travel in air conditioned luxury cars. With details of typical services including airport shuttle, wedding cars and tours.
Wimbleball Sailing Club - Includes news updates, a calendar of upcoming social events and group sails, and listing of club officials.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Dulverton If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Dulverton
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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Dulverton Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dulverton
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Dulverton 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 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Dulverton
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Dulverton "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) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Dulverton
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) My other wife is beautiful. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Dulverton Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Dulverton
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Dulverton Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Dulverton
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 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Dulverton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Dulverton
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Dulverton 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 calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Dulverton
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Dulverton You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Dulverton
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Dulverton Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Dulverton
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dulverton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Dulverton
