Croyde Devon and District - Directory of local accommodation, pubs, restaurants, shops, watersports, surfboard and wet-suit hire, events and amenities.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Croyde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Croyde
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Croyde 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 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Croyde
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Croyde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Croyde
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Croyde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Croyde
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Croyde My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Croyde
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Croyde "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Croyde
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Croyde Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Croyde
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Croyde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Croyde
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Croyde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Croyde
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Croyde If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Croyde
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Croyde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Croyde
