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Porthleven Guide - Britain's most southerly working port. A guide to what to see and do in the town.
Porthleven and The Loe Bar - A guide to the town in general and to the bar in particular.
Mobile Auto Tec - Mobile vehicle repair business. Servicing, welding, MOT repairs, engine tuning, At home or work.
Robinson Photography - Includes services and contact details.
Porthleven Angling Centre - Details of charter boats, fishing trips and tackle shop.
The Net Loft Gallery - Exhibits contemporary Cornish art changing every fortnight during season. Artist of the month, prints and local information.
Cober Valley Glass - Stained glass studio. Shows range of windows, sun catchers, mirrors, work for churches and recent commissions.
Porthleven Ladies Football Club - Includes player profiles, news, match reports, and league tables.
Porthleven School - School trips, school clubs, kid's showcase, caring for the environment and weekly news.
Critchards Seafood Restaurant - Location, sample menu with prices, plus details of bed and breakfast accommodation.
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Porthleven ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Porthleven "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Porthleven "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Porthleven There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Porthleven I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Porthleven If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Porthleven I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Porthleven 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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Porthleven You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Porthleven Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Porthleven The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Porthleven "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Porthleven "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Porthleven I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Porthleven "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Porthleven Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Porthleven "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Porthleven Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Porthleven The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Porthleven As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Porthleven At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Porthleven
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