BBC Somerset: See Somerset - A tour of Somerset in 360-degree panoramic pictures, including Axbridge, Bath, Burnham-on-Sea, Cheddar, Dunster, Glastonbury, Taunton and Wells.
Somerset Pictures - A collection of photographs of views and villages around the county.
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Maps and Views
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Maps and Views "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Maps and Views
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Maps and Views
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Maps and Views Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Maps and Views
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Maps and Views The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Maps and Views
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Maps and Views If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Maps and Views "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Maps and Views "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Maps and Views
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Maps and Views All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
