Caradon Archaeology group - Enclosures, hill forts, stone circles and rows in South East Cornwall and the Caradon District. Locations, photographs and access information.
West Caradon Scouts - Alows leaders and scouts to share information and contact each other. Includes a calendar of events.
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Caradon We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 Caradon
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Caradon "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Caradon
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Caradon When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Caradon
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Caradon "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Caradon
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Caradon To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Caradon
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "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) Caradon "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Caradon
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Caradon The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Caradon
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "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) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Caradon Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Caradon
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Caradon "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Caradon
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Caradon Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Caradon
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Caradon Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Caradon
