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Letsforum - Local Exchange Trading Scheme (LETS). Enables members to exchange goods and services locally. No money is involved. Introduction, news, member directory and topics.
The Falmouth Lifeboat - Shouts, diary and calendar with photographs of the boats in action.
Falmouth Harbour - Falmouth Harbour Commissioners. Includes information on tall ships, the yacht haven, approaches and visitor facilities.
Falmouth WebCam - Webcam images of the harbour and docks, updated every 10 minutes in daylight hours.
Falmouth Maritime Events - Programme of regattas, races and ship visits including tall ships and the Oyster Festival..
Falmouth Town Council - Information on arts and museums and historic buildings plus location of the council offices and opening hours.
Mawnan Parish Council - Parish news and council information plus churches, organisations and local businesses.
Falmouth Marina - Location, rates and facilities. Includes information on the annual Falmouth Regatta.
And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Falmouth The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Falmouth "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Falmouth "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Falmouth Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Falmouth Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Falmouth To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Falmouth Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Falmouth "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Falmouth "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Falmouth The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Falmouth All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Falmouth With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Falmouth Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Falmouth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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? Falmouth To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale 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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Falmouth If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Falmouth If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato 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 Falmouth There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Falmouth I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Falmouth The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Falmouth Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Falmouth
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