Chilton Cantelo House Oldies Page - Provides facilities for ex-pupils to get in touch with each other. Features current news, dates, guestbook, and chatroom.
The Gray Page - Home page of the Gray Family, includes information about Odcombe and Yeovil, especially the Yeovil Twinning Association. Also includes radio communications information and pictures of Beagle aircraft.
Yeovil Town Twins - Provides details of weekly meetings and contacts for a multiple birth support group.
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 My other wife is beautiful. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Society and Culture
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Society and Culture In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture 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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
