Family and Local History in Frome - Comprehensive and growing database of local historical data including people, places, professions and property.
Frome Dissenters Cemetery - Set-up following reports of the cemetery's closure, this site provides progress reports on the tidy-up project, pictures of headstones and details of a headstone transcription project.
David Heath MP: Somerton and Frome constituency - Welcome to the web site of David Heath MP, Liberal Democrat MP for the Somerton and Frome constituency in Somerset, UK, during the 1997-2001 parliament
Holy Trinity Church - Provides details of what's on at the church together with description of the building and pictures of its windows.
Wesley Methodist Church - Services and worship leaders, activities, photos, location and contact.
Frome and District Civic Society - History, aims and achievements of the society. Includes joining information and membership benefits.
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Society and Culture If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Society and Culture
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "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) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Society and Culture
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture
