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Richard Kast Photography - Photographs of Cornish life, Wadebridge Folk Festival, and the Royal Cornwall show.
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Maps and Views "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Maps and Views Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Maps and Views
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Maps and Views Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Maps and Views
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views 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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Maps and Views
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Maps and Views Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Maps and Views
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "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) Maps and Views We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Maps and Views
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Maps and Views Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Maps and Views
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Maps and Views What's new? Most of my wife. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Maps and Views When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Maps and Views
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Maps and Views
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Maps and Views There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Maps and Views
