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Wiltshire Web - Castle Combe - Introduction to the village and its history.
Castle Combe Racing School - Offers driving experience days, track days and instruction at Castle Combe circuit. Includes online booking.
Castle Combe Village - Run by the village to provide visitor information and a guide to upcoming events. The museum also utilises it to collate any memories of life in the village from ex-residents or visitors.
Castle Combe Circuit - Includes history, events, contacts, history and news for the racing circuit.
The Barn - Self-catering accommodation. Location, tourist information, prices and contact details.
Rivett Motorsport - Upcoming events, race reports and sponsorship opportunities, as well as contact details and a links page.
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That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Castle Combe "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Castle Combe Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." 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(Karl Marx) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Castle Combe Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Castle Combe A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Castle Combe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Castle Combe "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Castle Combe What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Castle Combe "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Castle Combe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Castle Combe I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Castle Combe "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Castle Combe "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Castle Combe I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Castle Combe
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