Crantock Village - Introduction to the village which is about four miles from Newquay. Includes a history of the village and church, a local gallery and pubs.
Dune Dreams - Photographer presents collection of scenic landscapes. Prints can be purchased.
1st Newquay Scout Troop - Part of 1st Newquay Scout Group which also has a Cub Scout Pack, 2 Beaver Scout Colonies and an Explorer Unit. Details of meetings, activities and photographs.
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Newquay Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Newquay
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Newquay "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Newquay
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Newquay "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Newquay
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Newquay "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Newquay
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Newquay "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 Newquay
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Newquay We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Newquay
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Newquay Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newquay
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "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) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Newquay NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Newquay
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Newquay "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Newquay
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Newquay Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Newquay
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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Newquay I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Newquay
