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Porlock - Tourist Association portal offering information on the village, detailed business, activities, services and accommodation information in pictures and words.
Oaks Hotel - Offers traditional accommodation details of tariff, virtual tour, sample menu, contact and booking information.
Church Farm Stoke Pero - Pictures and details of self-catering accommodation at a moorland farmhouse near Dunkery Beacon. Provides location and contact details.
Knowhere Guide to Porlock - Informal information about the village, supplied by locals. Includes links to noticeboard facility.
Hindon Organic Farm - 500 acre Exmoor Hill farm nr Minehead, offering bed and breakfast and self catering accommodation.
Exmoor Glass - Details of products and designs all produced by local craftsmen, opening hours, location and contact details.
Horner Mill - History of this early Victorian three-storey water mill, Grade II listed, and the activities of the present occupiers who publish books on local topics.
Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm - Information on falconry experience days, hunting, and hawk walks, bed and breakfast, riding, and other outdoor activity breaks.
Porlock Vale House - Offering accommodation, inclusive breaks and riding opportunities. Picture tour of facilities, contact information and prices.
Hartshanger Holidays - Self-catering accommodation overlooking the village, contact details and availability information.
Wychanger - Offers two holiday apartments in a converted stone coach house. Includes picture gallery, terms and booking form.
The Gables - Describes bed and breakfast accommodation in a 17th century thatched house located close to the centre of the village. Includes location details and guests comments.
Discovery Safaris of Porlock - Offers tours of Exmoor National Park in a specially adapted Landrover Defender. Available all year. Includes sample routes and booking information.
Allerford - A tour of the village in words and pictures, includes community information.
Andrew's on the Weir - Restaurant with rooms overlooking the harbour and bay. Details of menus, bedrooms, terms and 360 degree tour.
Lynch Country House - A country house offering self catering apartments. Details of location, tariffs and facilities.
Barn Cottage - Limited details of self catering accommodation offered close to Selworthy.
Burrowhayes Farm - Provides details of the facilities, tariff, location and contacts for this caravan and camping site and riding stables.
Security Direct - Supplier of fire, security and safety products including own brand door bolts and alarms. Includes product catalogue, ordering and contact details.
Wildlife in Wood - An exhibition of lifesized wood sculptures of Exmoor wildlife by local sculpter Mike Leach. Includes pictures and details of location at Allerford.
McCoy Saddlery - Suppliers of horse equipment, saddlery and riding equipment including custom made chaps. Includes product pictures and prices.
The Old School House - Describes the facilities at this 18th century cottage and adjoining Victorian school house. Includes tariff, pictures and local activities.
Greencombe Gardens - Opening times, location and photo gallery of a fully organic garden started in 1946.
The Flower Shop - Outlines store specialties and contact details.
Lucott Farmhouse - Describes self-catering accommodation on a working farm. Includes pictures and tariff.
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But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Porlock Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Porlock It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Porlock Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Porlock Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Porlock "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Porlock "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) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Porlock The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Porlock Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Porlock True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Porlock The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Porlock Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Porlock "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Porlock Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Porlock We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Porlock "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Porlock Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Porlock Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Porlock A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Porlock Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Porlock
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