Ruishton Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Somerset :::: Ruishton ::

Ruishton Links

Duke's Page - Personal page of a finance manager living in the village.
Ruishton Online - Large village site with history, archive material, maps, organisations. Gallery of photographs, some dating back to 1865.
Lower Manor Farm - Situated in the tranquil village of Thornfalcon, offering en-suite and private facilities, cooked breakfasts.
The Mount Somerset - Provides details of the accommodation, conference, leisure and related services offered by this Georgian country house hotel at Lower Henlade.
Stoke St Mary, Thurlbear and Orchard Portman - The story of three conjoining villages, medieval in origin. Includes pictorial and written histories of dwellings, churches, chapel, people, and places from 900 - 2001. Text by T.W. Mayberry and M.V. McArthur.
Mark Burgess - Writer and artist of children's books. Includes profile, portfolio and links.
Thornfalcon Car Sales - Specialising in the sale of family saloons and estates, sports cars and classic vehicles. Specialist knowledge on a myriad of car related subjects and locators of rare vehicles to order.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Ruishton What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Ruishton Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ruishton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Ruishton "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words Ruishton Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Ruishton Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Ruishton "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Ruishton "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Ruishton Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Ruishton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Ruishton Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ruishton cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Ruishton "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Ruishton Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Ruishton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Ruishton An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Ruishton The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Ruishton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ruishton Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Ruishton It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge My other wife is beautiful. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Ruishton In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Ruishton
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |