Truro Cathedral - Music, services, news, events and details of the restaurant, shop and education services. Includes history, bells and virtual tour.
Port Of Truro - Commercial quay, laid up shipping and leisure facilities. Several downloads including charts and the Fal Esturay and Creeks leaflet.
Chacewater - Community website for village between Truro and Redruth. Organisations, local businesses, village hall and local projects.
Lynher Dairies - Hand made speciality cheeses including nettle coated Cornish Yarg. Includes product information and details of the visitor centre.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Truro My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Truro
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Truro A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Truro
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Truro My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Truro
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Truro If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Truro
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Truro Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Truro
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Truro "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Truro
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Truro The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Truro
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Truro After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Truro
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Truro Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Truro
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Truro "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Truro
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Truro Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Truro
