The Bodmin Moor Pages - The history of the moor, the landscape, the people, where to stay and what to do.
South Cardon Mine - Family project to record the history of one of the largest copper mines in Cornwall. People, footpaths, maps, geology, ore and statistics.
Bodmin District Scouts - Includes program information, district calendar, contacts and links. Covers nine groups within the area.
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Society and Culture In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Society and Culture Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "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) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture >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 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 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Society and Culture
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Society and Culture
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Society and Culture
