Asteveryn - Cornish dance demonstration team and troyl or ceili band. Events, member details and archive.
Cornish Dance Society - Umbrella organisation promoting Cornish dancing through workshops, festivals and teaching in schools. News, events and dance group details.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Dance Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Dance
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Dance There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 . . .
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Dance Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Dance
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Dance There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Dance
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Dance What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Dance
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dance "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Dance
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Dance The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Dance
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Dance Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Dance
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) Dance "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) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Dance
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Dance Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Dance
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Dance "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Dance
