Nailsea-Online - Community site offering free and commercial advertising, business and event information.
Nailsea Wildlife Wardens - Pictures, location and contact details for wildlife sites in and around the town.
Noah's Ark Farm Centre - Selection of pictures of the farm's various animals, details of school visits to the farm. Includes narratives supporting the stories of Noah and the flood, and dispelling the theory of evolution.
Nailsea Town Council - Official site with comprehensive details of organisations based in the Town.
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Nailsea "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Nailsea
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) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Nailsea This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Nailsea
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Nailsea Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Nailsea
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Nailsea "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Nailsea
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "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) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Nailsea The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nailsea
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Nailsea If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Nailsea
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nailsea Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Nailsea
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Nailsea In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Nailsea
"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) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nailsea Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Nailsea
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Nailsea I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Nailsea
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Nailsea Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Nailsea
