Somerset Youth Partnership - Umbrella organisation linking groups involved in youth work across the county. Includes details of members, partners, training activities and events.
Connexions Somerset - Advice, guidance and support service for young people aged 13-19. Includes resources, contacts and details of locations.
Somerset Rural Youth Project - Providing educational and social skills for youngsters who may be disadvantaged by living in rural areas of Somerset. Includes details of moped loan scheme, health advice and details of recent activities.
Get Info, Get Fizzical - Help and advice for teenagers, provides guidance on subjects ranging from sex to drugs to staying safe on a night out.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Youth "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Youth
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Youth
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Youth Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Youth
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Youth "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Youth
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Youth Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Youth
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Youth "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Youth
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Youth The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Youth
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Youth The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Youth
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Youth Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Youth
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Youth When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Youth
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Youth "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Youth
