Plemont Beach - Personal guide to a north west beach. Includes history and surf information.
Jersey Ferry - Provides real time ferry ticket sales, timetables and passenger information for sailings.
Zebra Hire - Car and cycle hire. Includes rates and contact details.
Jersey War Tunnels - Museum of the German Occupation in World War II, based around the underground hospital Ho8. Events, resource and contact details.
Battle of Flowers Association - Details of floats being entered and the activities of the St. Lawrence parish association.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Travel and Tourism
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Travel and Tourism
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Travel and Tourism A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Travel and Tourism
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Travel and Tourism
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Travel and Tourism Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Travel and Tourism A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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 Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Travel and Tourism Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Travel and Tourism If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism
