Friends of The Lizard - Monitors development and works to protect the area. Aims, membership details and newsletters.
St Keverne Local History Society - Includes the extensive Canon Diggens archive, parish records, downloads and images of Coverack and St Keverne. Taped memories of the Mohegan shipwreck are also available.
Harry's Stuff - Local author Harry Marshall. Novels, articles, and images concerning the Lizard; works on Byron and Horace; criticism; satire; and images from Hong Kong, China, Africa, and Asia.
The Lizard Methodist Church - Welcome, worship, groups, meetings, vision, events, photos, activities, location and contact.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- 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) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Lizard "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lizard
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Lizard "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Lizard
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Lizard "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Lizard
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Lizard If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Lizard
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lizard All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Lizard
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Lizard "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lizard
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Lizard There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Lizard
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Lizard Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lizard
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Lizard Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Lizard
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Lizard What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lizard
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Lizard Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Lizard
