Cains - A firm of advocates, solicitors and notaries. Features an e-library covering news and various points of Manx law.
Conti - A commercial law firm which also offers offshore services. Details some cases recently undertaken.
Corlett Bolton & Co. - Advocates, Notaries Public and Commissioners of Oaths. Includes contact information and code of practice.
Quinn Kneale - Advocates, Notaries Public and Commissioners for Oaths
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 Nietzsche Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
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something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Legal Services
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Legal Services My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Legal Services
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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-- Oliver Herford The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Legal Services
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Legal Services Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Legal Services
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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to the world.
-- Antonio Machado For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Legal Services
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Legal Services You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Legal Services
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Legal Services I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Legal Services The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Legal Services
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Legal Services I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Legal Services
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Legal Services Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Legal Services
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Legal Services If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Legal Services
