Helston Guide - A tourist guide to the area. Features a short history and descriptions of the town.
Clare's Cornish Pages - Information on the history the town. Contains sections on legends, ghosts, shipwrecks and language, including King Arthur and smuggling.
Roskilly's Ice Cream and Organic Farm - Enterprising farm with tea rooms, craft shop, freshly baked pasties, farm ice cream and holiday cottages provides information and contact information.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Helston I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Helston
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Helston The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Helston
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Helston "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Helston
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Helston Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Helston
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Helston "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Helston
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Helston "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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Helston
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Helston "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Helston
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Helston "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Helston
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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Helston "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Helston
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Helston "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Helston
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Helston 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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Helston
