Liskeard Town Council - Official council site. Features local information and street maps.
St Keyne - Community website. Includes photographs and local information.
Craft-Box - Shop and online service run by a textiles tutor with a speciality in new and hard to find materials.
The Carol Whibley Collection - Versatile sculptor working with willow, wire, plaster and found objects. Examples, workshops and contact details.
Hermione and Richard Dunn - Images of the maritime environment in single and multi-framed paintings. Examples with key to galleries where the actual work can be seen.
TM International School of Horsemanship - British Horse Society approved training centre. Offers riding lessons, hacking on Bodmin Moor and residential riding holidays.
Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross - Arts and environmental centre, home of Moorland Theatre. Information on canopied performance arena, workshops, gallery and events.
Lower Tokenbury Equestrian Centre - An approved ABRS establishment, and approved Pony Club Centre. Details of facilities and services.
Surfers Art - Showcase for the work of surfers and artists Steve Andrew and Roger Holmes. Biographies, gallery and purchasing information.
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson Liskeard People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Liskeard
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Liskeard
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Wehrner von Braun Liskeard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Liskeard
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Liskeard "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) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Liskeard
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Liskeard When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Liskeard
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Liskeard All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Liskeard
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
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-- D.H. Lawrence Liskeard Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "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) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Liskeard
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Liskeard We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Liskeard
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Paul Dirac Liskeard There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Liskeard
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-- Anon. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Liskeard I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Liskeard
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Liskeard Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Liskeard
