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The Creative Dept - Information about this advertising agency, what they do, the way they work and a portfolio of their work in different mediums.
DJLC Handcrafted Designer Jewellery - Pictures and descriptions of designer jewellery made by this local business. Includes guides to aid the choice of materials and design.
Horus Communications - Information about this company which builds web sites. Includes thoughts on web design and links to client sites.
Kestrel's Perch - Personal homepage of Mac Jordan with stories of her wedding, cats and other interests.
Pete Jordan - Personal homepage with information and links about cats, music and friends.
Long Ashton Golf Club - Club history, course information, tee times, fees and fixtures for this 6077 yard parkland course.
Auto Scuderia - Brochure request for new cars, stock list for used cars and overview of gas conversion for this Toyota car dealer and Autogas specialist. Showrooms in Failand and Long Ashton.
Bristol Scooter Centre - Large searchable database of scooters for sale in the UK, with delivery, finance and insurance arranged
Broadband for Long Ashton and Failand - Encourages people in the area to register an interest in ADSL Broadband. Includes a guide to broadband, exchange trigger level and campaign information.
Apotheke Health and Beauty Salon - Offering a range of relaxing beauty treatments including aromatherapy, waxing and manicures. Includes services available and product information.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Long Ashton "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Long Ashton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Long Ashton >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Long Ashton "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Long Ashton Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Long Ashton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Long Ashton "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Long Ashton Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Long Ashton Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Long Ashton "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Long Ashton Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Long Ashton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Long Ashton I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni Long Ashton Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Long Ashton I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Long Ashton The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Long Ashton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Long Ashton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Long Ashton What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Long Ashton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Long Ashton To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Long Ashton
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