Stithians Show - Annual agricultural show. Includes dates, history of the show and what you can expect to see.
Penrose Properties - Property consultants and agents who are involved in both marketing and sales. Property viewing, appraisal, and search are other services they offer. Their estate office is at Stithians.
Kernow Horse Driving for the Disabled - Offering horse driving to the disabled. News and an invitation to visit and see the fun to be had by both drivers and helpers.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Stithians If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Stithians
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Stithians 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Stithians
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Stithians Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Stithians
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stithians Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Stithians
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Stithians "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Stithians
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Stithians The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Stithians
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Stithians She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Stithians
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Stithians "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 Stithians
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Stithians The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Stithians
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Stithians "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Stithians
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Stithians They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Stithians
