Victorian Boscastle - Transcript of an 1880 article on a visit to the village and the plot summary of Mount Royal by Mary Elizabeth Braddon set in and near Boscastle.
The Museum of Witchcraft - Long established museum presents a history of witchcraft and guide to their displays. Includes location and opening times.
The National Trust, Boscastle - Introduction to the harbour and village with maps, facilities provided by the Trust and events.
Boscastle Pottery - Family pottery claims to be the only world producer of Mochaware. Shop details and photograph.
The Boscastle Busker - John Maughan has raised thousands for Mount Edgcumbe Hospice and was featured on BBC2's Seaside Parish. Biography, reviews, CD and gig list.
Boscastle Old Mill - 17th century mill with ten shops plus a cafe and working water wheel. Includes information on the shops plus a location map and photographs of local beauty spots.
BBC - A Seaside Parish - Television series featuring the Rev Christine Musser settling into her new parish. Includes her biography.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Boscastle Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Boscastle
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Boscastle Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Boscastle
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Boscastle Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Boscastle
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Boscastle "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Boscastle
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Boscastle Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Boscastle
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Boscastle The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Boscastle
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Boscastle Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Boscastle
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Boscastle Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Boscastle
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Boscastle He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Boscastle
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Boscastle Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Boscastle
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Boscastle "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Boscastle
