Shanklin Chine Historic Gorge and Heritage Centre - Place of natural beauty and conservation containing rare plants, birds and animals. The heritage centre shows the history of the Chine including smuggling and the World War II PLUTO Project.
Wight Water Activity Centre - An activity centre offering fun and professional watersport courses. Includes information about the courses and events held at the centre, membership of the centre and contact details.
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Shanklin "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Shanklin
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Shanklin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Shanklin
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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Shanklin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Shanklin
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Shanklin I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Shanklin
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Shanklin A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Shanklin
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Shanklin "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Shanklin
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Shanklin "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Shanklin
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Shanklin There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Shanklin
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Shanklin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Shanklin
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Shanklin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Shanklin
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "'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) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Shanklin A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Shanklin
