Westcountryman - Personal pages of John, born in Croydon and retired to Falmouth. Description of Cornwall, with pictures. Photographs of his family and pet dogs.
Touch Base - Mark Linne shares a space for all his friends in North Cornwall to stay in touch.
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Personal Pages The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Personal Pages
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Personal Pages
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Personal Pages The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Personal Pages
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Personal Pages Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Personal Pages
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Personal Pages Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Personal Pages If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Personal Pages
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Personal Pages
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Personal Pages "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Personal Pages "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Personal Pages
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Personal Pages
