The History of East Harptree - A short history of this Mendip village with pictures and descriptions of churches, farms and other buildings.
Virtual West Harptree - A virtual tour of the village with pictures and panoramas, includes a Millennium Memories photo collection and local links.
Ring O'Bells - Traditional country pub at Hinton Blewitt serving food and real ales. Includes menu, wine list, latest pub sports news and picture gallery of the locals.
Chewton Cheese Dairy - This dairy at Chewton Mendip produces traditional Somerset farmhouse cheddar. There is also a restaurant, farm shop, children's play area and caravan and camp site. Maps, photographs.
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "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) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 East Harptree Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea East Harptree
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) East Harptree My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. East Harptree
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan East Harptree I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) East Harptree
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor East Harptree Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler East Harptree
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) East Harptree Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer East Harptree
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon East Harptree With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon East Harptree
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett East Harptree The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth East Harptree
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "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) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht East Harptree Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson East Harptree
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) East Harptree After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel East Harptree
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 East Harptree The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana East Harptree
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins East Harptree Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes East Harptree
