Bude Lifeboat - History, news, events and exercise times. Includes details of Friggin' Riggin', their traditional folk group who raise funds for the RNLI and play weekly at the Falcon Hotel.
Bude Canal - The Bude Canal and Harbour Society include the canal history and details of their magazine.
Bude Council - Information on the council, committees, museum, Canal and Gurney Day, and a regeneration project.
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 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Bude 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Bude
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Bude I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bude
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Bude "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bude
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Bude Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Bude
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Bude Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Bude
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Bude The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Bude
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bude One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Bude
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Bude "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Bude
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Bude The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 Bude
"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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Bude The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Bude
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bude The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bude
