Save The Parade - A proposal has been submitted to build a block of flats in the centre of The Parade in Cowes. This web site supports the fight against it.
Cowes Harbour site - Information for navigation, accommodation and recreation.
Shipwrecked at Cowes - Site for annual Cowes event with live music, inter-crew quizz events, stand up comedy, food and alcohol.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Cowes Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Cowes
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Cowes I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Cowes
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Cowes "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Cowes
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cowes Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Cowes
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Cowes My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Cowes
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Cowes "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Cowes
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Cowes Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Cowes
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Cowes Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Cowes
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Cowes Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Cowes
"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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Cowes The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Cowes
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Cowes I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Cowes
