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Possetpie - Local community information detailing shops, services and links.
Gordano School - Prospectus, newsletters and exam results for 11-18 community comprehensive school.
Portishead and North Weston Town Council - Official site of the town council with details of councillors, wards, committees and minutes. Also has information on local services, events and organisations.
Portishead Portal - Brief history of the town and collection of links to town related websites.
Portishead - A concise but rather negative description of the town.
High Down Junior School - Prospectus for mixed junior school.
Knockboy Guest House - Prices, pictures and contact details of a guest house at Clapton-in-Gordano.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may Portishead It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Portishead Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Portishead "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Portishead "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Portishead If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Portishead Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Portishead There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Portishead "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "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) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Portishead More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Portishead University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Portishead "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Portishead If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Portishead Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Portishead "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Portishead There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Portishead There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Portishead You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Portishead "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Portishead I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Portishead Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Portishead We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Portishead
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