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Deviock Parish Council - New parish covering the old St Germans parish and parts of St Martins by Looe and Morval. Information on meetings, members, local organisations and events.
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 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli St Germans "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. St Germans
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston St Germans Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde St Germans
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein St Germans "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. St Germans
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford St Germans Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) St Germans Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) St Germans
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn St Germans I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley St Germans
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 St Germans After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, St Germans
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan St Germans "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton St Germans
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes St Germans "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner St Germans
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington St Germans "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) St Germans
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton St Germans In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry St Germans
