Exmoor Oral History Archive - Summaries of the recordings made on behalf of the Dulverton and District Civic Society. Archives are searchable by person or place.
Endangered Exmoor - An organisation formed by local people to fight for a traditional way of life. Information on the rural community, hill farming, red deer, Burns Inquiry, news, press releases, rally and statistics.
Broadband 4 Exmoor - Aims to raise the awareness of broadband technology amongst Exmoor dwellers and campaign for the provision of services to the area.
Hunting On Exmoor - Details of how you could join the local Exmoor hunts for the day by hiring a horse. Details of hunts along with tariff and contact information.
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Exmoor The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Exmoor
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Exmoor The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Exmoor
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "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) Exmoor Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Exmoor
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Exmoor If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Exmoor
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Exmoor Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Exmoor
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Exmoor "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Exmoor
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Exmoor Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Exmoor
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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Exmoor Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Exmoor
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Exmoor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Exmoor
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Exmoor "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Exmoor
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Exmoor Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Exmoor
