St Tudy - Village between Camelford and Wadebridge provides community information, parish records and downloads of the parish magazine.
The Cornish Birds of Prey Centre - Over 50 birds of prey with regular flying displays, ornamental pheasants and 3 fishing lakes. Visitor information includes option to have a full day as an assistant.
Tristan's Gallery - Fine art photography gallery. What's on, photographs and artists' biographies.
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wadebridge "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Wadebridge
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Wadebridge Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Wadebridge
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Wadebridge A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Wadebridge
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Wadebridge Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Wadebridge
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Wadebridge I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Wadebridge
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wadebridge "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Wadebridge
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Wadebridge "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Wadebridge
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger My other wife is beautiful. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Wadebridge A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Wadebridge
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Wadebridge Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wadebridge
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Wadebridge ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Wadebridge
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Wadebridge Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Wadebridge
