Bay View Hotel - Includes photos and contact information.
Mallmore - A Christian guest house and conference centre.
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Port St Mary Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Port St Mary
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Port St Mary The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Port St Mary
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Port St Mary Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Port St Mary
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Port St Mary Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Port St Mary
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Port St Mary LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Port St Mary
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Port St Mary Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Port St Mary
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Port St Mary The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Port St Mary
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Port St Mary I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Port St Mary
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Port St Mary The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Port St Mary
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Port St Mary 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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Port St Mary
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Port St Mary Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Port St Mary