Gandolf.com - Cornish Folklore Index - Contains sections on the superstitions, legends and folk tales of the county, including information on smuggling, giants and faeries.
Spirits of Cornwall - Accounts of paranormal happenings in the county. Includes legends, haunted houses, castles and churches.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Folklore "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Folklore
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Folklore There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Folklore
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Folklore The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Folklore
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Folklore Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Folklore
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Folklore Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Folklore
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Folklore Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Folklore
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Folklore A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Folklore
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Folklore "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Folklore
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Folklore I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Folklore
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Folklore Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Folklore
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Folklore A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Folklore
