Cornwall Humanists - Summary of principles, advice on humanist cermonies such as burials, weddings and naming. Membership details and diary of debates and social activities.
An Bibel Kernewek - Project translating the bible into Cornish. It is hoped to publish the New Testament in 2004.
Cornwall Historic Churches Trust - Assists churches and chapels in Cornwall with essential repairs and restoration. Non-demoninational. Forms, reports and gallery of photographs.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Religion "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Religion
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Religion "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Religion
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Religion In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Religion
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Religion "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 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Religion
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Religion blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Religion
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Religion Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Religion
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Religion "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Religion
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Religion What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Religion
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Religion We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Religion
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Religion Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Religion I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Religion
