Guernsey Bicycle Group - The Guernsey bicycle Group (GBG) promotes sustainable transport on the Channel Island of Guernsey.
Jim's Taxi Service - The Channel Islands' first online taxi service. Taxis can only be booked at least 3 hours in advance between 8am and 8pm local time.
CI Aviation - Aviation photos from Guernsey Airport, Jersey Airport & Alderney Airport in the Channel Islands. Diary of aviation events, information on movements, residents, spotting, and radio frequencies.
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Transport 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Transport The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transport
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Transport 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Transport
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Transport "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Transport
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Transport There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Transport
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Transport Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Transport We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Transport
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Transport When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Transport
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Transport
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Transport "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Transport
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Transport I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Transport
