Glastonbury People - Brief profiles and pictures of a selection of local people.
The Shapwick Project - Intensive archaeological study of the parish aiming to discover when the village of Shapwick developed.
Rainbow Wicca - Profile of Kevin Saunders an author and High Priest of the Coven in the Isle of Avalon. Includes details of wica courses and photo gallery.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Society and Culture
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture
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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 Society and Culture Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. My other wife is beautiful. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Society and Culture There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Society and Culture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
