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Society and Culture Links

Brian Cotter M.P. - Official website of the Member of Parliament for the Town.
North Somerset Agenda 21 - Details of local groups helping to raise the profile of sustainable living the area. Contact information and details of local projects.
YMCA Weston-super-Mare - Explains history and aims of YMCA, local management team, youth activities, events, room hire and details of other groups using their facilities.
Weston Fire Station Old Codgers - Information and contact details of this club for retired firemen from the local station.
Weston super Mare Family History Society - Information on societies meetings, local resources and web links relating to genealogy of the area.
Transatlantic cables and the Commercial Cable Company - A short illustrated history of the undersea telegraph cables that used to come into the UK via Weston-super-Mare.
Coronation Local Action Team - Community group aiming to identify and resolve local issues around the Coronation estate. Includes an overview of the area, details of projects and newsletter.
Preanes Green Residents' Association and Local Action Team - Community safety group in the Worle area working in partnership with councils, police and others to improve the local area. Includes minutes of meetings, newsletter and contacts.
Weston-super-Mare Regeneration Partnership - Broad partnership of 23 organisations working to reshape the town by tackling community development, housing, crime and economic issues. Provides details of funding, projects, reference documentation and contacts.
Birnbeck Pier - History of this Grade II listed pier which provides a link to an off shore island. Fund-raising information, memorabilia sales and location details.
Weston super Mud - A photo history of the town together with a more recent photo gallery of nightlife, cruising details and message board.
St Augustine's Locking - Profile of Locking parish church with newsletter, details of events, mission partner support and history.
RSPCA, North Somerset Branch - Newsletter, clinic, details of rescued animals and fund-raising events.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Society and Culture What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture "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) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Society and Culture To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Society and Culture A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Society and Culture Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Society and Culture 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. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Society and Culture Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture
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