Douglas Explorer Scout Unit - An introduction to the unit and details on upcoming events. Also includes some resources for general use and a membership list.
Douglas Youth Club - Details on the projects and facilities provided by this Department of Education centre.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Recreation and Sports
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Recreation and Sports Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Recreation and Sports
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Recreation and Sports
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Recreation and Sports "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "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) Recreation and Sports Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Recreation and Sports Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports
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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Recreation and Sports
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Recreation and Sports
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Recreation and Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Recreation and Sports
