Truro Connexions Information and Advice Centre - Guidance and support for young people to help prepare them for adult and working life. Location and opening hours plus other access points.
Penmount Crematorium - Publicly owned, self financed facility. Services, chapels, memorials, history, events and charges. Leaflets and service charter.
Garuda Trading - Information and education on aspects of Buddhism plus an online shop for Tibetan Buddhist Dharma supplies.
Gloweth Residents' Association - Provides photographs of the estate then and now, benefits of membership and a members only area with news and advice.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Society and Culture
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture 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 No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Society and Culture
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Society and Culture
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Society and Culture "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Society and Culture The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Society and Culture The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton 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. Society and Culture "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Society and Culture
