Bristol Aerospace Sub Aqua Club - Local group open to all: Bretagne wreck site, information, photos, history, lecture programme, links, membership details.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Diving and Sub Aqua "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Diving and Sub Aqua
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Diving and Sub Aqua Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Diving and Sub Aqua
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Diving and Sub Aqua "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Diving and Sub Aqua
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Diving and Sub Aqua It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Diving and Sub Aqua
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Diving and Sub Aqua There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Diving and Sub Aqua
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Diving and Sub Aqua Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Diving and Sub Aqua
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Diving and Sub Aqua "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Diving and Sub Aqua
"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) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Diving and Sub Aqua A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Diving and Sub Aqua
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Diving and Sub Aqua How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Diving and Sub Aqua
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Diving and Sub Aqua "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Diving and Sub Aqua
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Diving and Sub Aqua It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "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 Diving and Sub Aqua
