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Stoke St Gregory Parish Council - Contact details for the council, minutes of meetings and village hall newsletter.
North Curry - Parish newsletter, diary of events, information on businesses, organisations, facilities, churches, schools, travel, healthcare, parish council and history.
Lucy Willis - Burrowbridge based painter and printmaker. Biography, image library, exhibitions and project information.
Somerset Levels Basket & Craft Centre - Suppliers and growers of live and dried willow used in baskets, woven articles, cane furniture and accessories. Ready made willow furniture also available.
English Hurdle - Offers hurdles and other willow fabrications such as trellises, plant supports and arbors for residential and commercial gardens. Includes product catalogue and care guidance.
Coates Willows and Wetlands - Suppliers of a wide selection of willow baskets, plant supports and climbers, trellis hurdles and willow sculptures to retail and trade customers. With details of visitors centre.
Longs House - Describes bed and breakfast accommodation at a family home in North Curry. Includes rates and contact details.
Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Stoke St Gregory Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Stoke St Gregory "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Stoke St Gregory There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Stoke St Gregory The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Stoke St Gregory In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx "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) Stoke St Gregory There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Stoke St Gregory All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Stoke St Gregory Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Stoke St Gregory True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Stoke St Gregory Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 Stoke St Gregory A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Stoke St Gregory "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Stoke St Gregory I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Stoke St Gregory A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu 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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Stoke St Gregory "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Stoke St Gregory A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Stoke St Gregory I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Stoke St Gregory Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Stoke St Gregory Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau Stoke St Gregory My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Stoke St Gregory I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Stoke St Gregory
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