Humber Rescue - Provides assistance on the Rivers Humber, Ouse and Trent. The RIB is based under The Humber Bridge and is manned by volunteers 24 hours a day.
Cliff House - Bed and Breakfast. Includes directions and tariff.
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hessle "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Hessle
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hessle The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Hessle
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Hessle "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Hessle
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Hessle If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Hessle
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hessle Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Hessle
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hessle "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hessle
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Hessle I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Hessle
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Hessle "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Hessle
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "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 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Hessle If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Hessle
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Hessle 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 "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) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Hessle
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Hessle When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Hessle
