Wheddon Cross and Cutcombe Community - Portal for the two villages on Exmoor with an accommodation and business directory, news and community information, a virtual tour and photo gallery.
WebberBus - History, service and contact details for family firm who provide bus and coach hire.
Shearwell Data Ltd - News, product catalogue and information about this company which specialises in animal identification and tagging systems.
Downs House Equine - Overview of horse rehabilitation and equine physiotherapy centre.
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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. Wheddon Cross Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Wheddon Cross
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Wheddon Cross It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Wheddon Cross
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 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Wheddon Cross Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Wheddon Cross
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Wheddon Cross Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Wheddon Cross
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Wheddon Cross None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wheddon Cross
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Wheddon Cross The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Wheddon Cross
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wheddon Cross Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Wheddon Cross
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Wheddon Cross Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Wheddon Cross
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Wheddon Cross It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Wheddon Cross
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "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) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Wheddon Cross War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Wheddon Cross
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Wheddon Cross Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Wheddon Cross
