West Somerset Railway - March Web provide news, history, timetables and links on this unofficial site.
West Somerset Railway - Official site of the longest Steam Heritage Railway in the UK connecting Minehead with Bishops Lydeard. Details of events and services.
Haynes Motor Museum - Travel through motoring history at Britain's international collection of historic cars from around the world.
West Somerset Railway Association - Charitable organisation which support the WSR. Includes Association news, membership, details of officers, volunteering and journal together with information about the locomotives and stations.
West Somerset Railway on the Web - Unofficial site providing a guide to the train times, events, history, locomotives and stations of the WSR.
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum - Situated at Yeovilton has a collection of over 50 historic aircraft, including Concorde. News and information and details of bookings and location.
Attractions in Somerset - Details of over 20 tourist attractions in Somerset including museums, country parks, wildlife centres and bird garden.
East Somerset Railway - Take a trip back in time along the Strawberry Line through the Mendip Hills on 19th century steam locomotive ride.
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paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Attractions If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Attractions
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 Attractions blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Attractions
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Attractions
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Attractions The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Attractions
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Attractions The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Attractions
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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Attractions "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Attractions
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki 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 Attractions We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attractions
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Attractions Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Attractions
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Attractions If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Attractions
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Attractions Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Attractions
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Attractions Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
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