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Knowhere Guide to Minehead - Informal information about Minehead, supplied by locals, with links to a noticeboard facility.
Monica Ismay Horn - Describes the paintings and art works of this Fine Artist. Includes gallery of pictures, biography and details of exhibitions, courses and sales.
West Somerset Advice Bureau - Free information and advice.
Minehead Town Council - Provides details of the council's responsibilities, facilities, committees and services together with a history of the town, twinning and tourist information.
The Regal Theatre - Profile of this 1930's community theatre with details of the box office, forthcoming productions and facilities.
Sacred Heart - News, history, location and contact details for this Catholic church.
Minehead Baptist Church - Offers a range of worship, study groups and activities. With snippets from their archives, annual reports, location and contact details. Includes design tips for church websites.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Minehead "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Minehead "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Minehead You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Minehead What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Minehead Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Minehead "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Minehead Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Minehead A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Minehead Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Minehead The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Minehead "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Minehead If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Minehead Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West 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) Minehead "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Minehead The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Minehead "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Minehead "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Minehead My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Minehead "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Minehead When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Minehead If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Minehead
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