Wight Green Centre - A one stop site for environmental information on the Isle of Wight. Topics include Green Tourism, wildlife, conservation volunteering, energy saving, recycling, water saving, and forthcoming activities.
Isle of Wight Zoo - The zoo specialises in tigers and other big cats. Website with species and conservation information.
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Science and Environment "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Science and Environment
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Science and Environment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Science and Environment
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Science and Environment Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Science and Environment
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Science and Environment "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Science and Environment
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. 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 Science and Environment "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Science and Environment
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Science and Environment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Science and Environment
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Science and Environment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Science and Environment
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Science and Environment Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Science and Environment
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Science and Environment "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Science and Environment
