Lundy Lighthouse - Pictoral tour of the repainting of the lighthouse on Lundy.
The Genealogy of Lundy - Providing topographical, dynastic, demographic information. Database information with optional sort facilities is also included.
LundyCam - A webcam showing the island, viewed from North Devon, updated daily.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "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) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Lundy Island "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Lundy Island
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Lundy Island I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lundy Island
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Lundy Island Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Lundy Island
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Lundy Island "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Lundy Island
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Lundy Island Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lundy Island
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 Lundy Island blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Lundy Island
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Lundy Island What's new? Most of my wife. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Lundy Island
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Lundy Island Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lundy Island
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Lundy Island Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Lundy Island
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lundy Island blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Lundy Island
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Lundy Island May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Lundy Island
