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Wiveliscombe - An introduction to Wiveliscombe, its location, history, businesses, events, accommodation, community, sports and parish information.
Bishopsgate Veterinary Centre - Profiles of the staff, facilities and clinics of the practice. Includes advice on pet travel scheme, vaccinations, worms and how to give a pill to a cat.
Parish Church of St Andrew - Details and pictures of the services, groups and contacts for this Anglican church. Includes a brief history of the church building.
Waterrow Community Group - News, events and community information about the villages of Waterrow, Chipstable and Raddington. With history and pictures of the villages, accommodation and business directory.
Kingsmead Community School - Newsletter, prospectus, calendar, information for parents and details of staff.
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Wiveliscombe Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Wiveliscombe Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden >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 Wiveliscombe "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Wiveliscombe In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wiveliscombe "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "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) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Wiveliscombe He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Wiveliscombe A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Wiveliscombe 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Wiveliscombe You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Wiveliscombe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Wiveliscombe "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Wiveliscombe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Wiveliscombe Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Wiveliscombe "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) 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 Wiveliscombe I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Wiveliscombe I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Wiveliscombe I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer What's new? Most of my wife. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Wiveliscombe The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Wiveliscombe Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Wiveliscombe Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Wiveliscombe For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Wiveliscombe
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