Paddle Steamer Ryde - Documenting the history of the paddle steamer Ryde (Queen) and providing a place for people to share their memories and their support for her future.
Porchfield - A small hamlet between Cowes and Yarmouth
Newchurch Parish - Describes the parish and its history and constituent villages with details of local organisations and places to stay.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Isle of Wight My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Isle of Wight
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Isle of Wight If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Isle of Wight
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Isle of Wight All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Isle of Wight
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Isle of Wight This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Isle of Wight Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Isle of Wight
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Isle of Wight Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Isle of Wight
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Isle of Wight You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Isle of Wight
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Isle of Wight There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Isle of Wight
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Isle of Wight A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Isle of Wight
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Isle of Wight Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Isle of Wight
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Isle of Wight I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Isle of Wight
