The Lyme Regis Marine Centre - Home of the Lyme Regis International School of Boatbuilding. Also a recognised RYA centre offering a range of shore-based navigation and sailing courses and afloat powerboat courses.
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Lyme Regis "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Lyme Regis
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lyme Regis "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Lyme Regis
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Lyme Regis Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Lyme Regis
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Lyme Regis "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lyme Regis
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Lyme Regis Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Lyme Regis
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Lyme Regis Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Lyme Regis
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Lyme Regis 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lyme Regis
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lyme Regis Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Lyme Regis
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Lyme Regis "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Lyme Regis
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Lyme Regis "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Lyme Regis
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Lyme Regis The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Lyme Regis
