CyberPort - A project aiming to celebrate and communicate the maritime history of Weymouth & Portland.
Weymouth.here-on-the.net - A site with the history and heritage of Weymouth and the surrounding area shown in text and pictures.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Society and Culture
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Society and Culture "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Society and Culture "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Society and Culture "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Society and Culture
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Society and Culture
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Society and Culture
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings 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 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 Society and Culture I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Society and Culture
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Society and Culture "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
