Falmouth and Penryn Sea Cadets - Falmouth and Penry Sea Cadets T.S. Robert Hichens. A youth organization for young people between the ages of 10 to 18.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Penryn "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Penryn
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Penryn The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Penryn
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Penryn Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Penryn
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Penryn I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Penryn
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Penryn Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Penryn
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Penryn A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Penryn
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Penryn Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Penryn
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Penryn The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Penryn
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Penryn "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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Penryn
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Penryn Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Penryn
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Penryn Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Penryn
