Somerset County Council - Aims to give information about Somerset and its facilities, and to show some of the things to do and see around the county.
West Somerset District Council - Aims and details of local services, district councillors, committees, boards and meetings council information points, planning procedures and vacancies.
South Somerset District Council - Information about the council and the area, includes a searchable database of local photographs.
Bath and North East Somerset Council - Provides detailed information on the structure of the council, services provided and business opportunities.
Sedgemoor District Council - Provides details of council services for the Sedgemoor area of Somerset, information on tourism (accommodation, activities and attractions) and advice on the area as a location for business.
Oultwood: Somerset - Directory of local government council web sites using clickable maps and lists.
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Government He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Government
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Government
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Government "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Government
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Government "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Government
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Government "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Government
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Government My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Government
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Government I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Government The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Government
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Government The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Government
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Government Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Government Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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