Port Navas - Village website with news, diary, history and holiday cottages.
Constantine - Directory of services for residents and visitors. Includes parish groups, charities and sports clubs.
Helford River Boats - Boat hire and ferry service. Information on the boats, the river and moorings.
Helford River Sailing Club - Located on the south bank of the Helford River on the edge of Helford Village with clubhouse and shore facilities. Includes race results and schedule, social programs, membership and facility information, and related links.
Helford River Moorings - Information on annual and visitor moorings in the Helford River, including position of moorings and local services.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Helford "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Helford
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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Helford It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Helford
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Helford If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Helford
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Helford Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous May you never leave your marriage alive. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Helford
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Helford Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Helford
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Helford Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Helford
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. Helford I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Helford
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Helford Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Helford
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Helford "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Helford
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Helford Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Helford
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Helford "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Helford
