Mevagissey Gig Club - Gig racing team. History, fixtures, meet the rowers, gallery and gift shop.
Special Touch - Therapeutic massage and reiki for people with learning disabilities. Information about research and benefits of different therapies, with message board and contact details.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Mevagissey In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Mevagissey
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Mevagissey It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Mevagissey
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Mevagissey Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Mevagissey
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Mevagissey "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Mevagissey
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mevagissey Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Mevagissey
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mevagissey A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Mevagissey
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mevagissey Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Mevagissey
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Mevagissey The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Mevagissey
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Mevagissey If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle 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" Mevagissey
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Mevagissey "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Mevagissey
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Mevagissey blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Mevagissey
