The Isles of Scilly - Photographic views and informational links about the islands.
Island Race Photo Archive - A large selection of postcard photographs that can also be sent by e-mail.
Scilly Webcam - Pictures from Bryher and St.Mary's. Includes an archive of prints and paintings by Richard Pearce.
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Maps and Views I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Maps and Views
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Maps and Views I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Maps and Views Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Maps and Views
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Maps and Views A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Maps and Views
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Maps and Views Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Maps and Views
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Maps and Views Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Maps and Views
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Maps and Views
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Maps and Views During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Maps and Views Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Maps and Views
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Maps and Views Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Maps and Views
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Maps and Views I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Maps and Views
