Polperro Cornish Gem - Local services, community organisations, the Polperro Arts Festival, the Fishermen's Choir and local history.
Polperro Arts Festival - Archive of previous festival material plus information on planned events.
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Polperro 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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Polperro
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Polperro If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Polperro
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Polperro In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "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) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Polperro
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Polperro Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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" Polperro
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Polperro Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Polperro
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Polperro "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Polperro
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Polperro Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Polperro
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Polperro Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Polperro
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Polperro Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Polperro
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Polperro It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Polperro
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "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) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Polperro "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Polperro
