Terry Bevan - Creates original watercolours and prints of local scenes. Previews and contact details.
The National Trust: Tyntesfield - Overview, pictorial tour and history of a gothic Victorian mansion set in a 500 acre estate. Includes details for booking a visit.
Nailsea Musicals on the Web - Details of future and past productions of this amateur dramatics group. Includes information about minis and juniors, box office and equipment hire.
The TLF Dance Centre - Class details for children and adults, photos and dance scripts. Pictures of Nailsea Carnival.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. 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 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arts and Entertainment "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Arts and Entertainment
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Arts and Entertainment
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Arts and Entertainment Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Arts and Entertainment
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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) Arts and Entertainment "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 Arts and Entertainment We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Arts and Entertainment Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Arts and Entertainment
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Arts and Entertainment I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Arts and Entertainment
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
