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Isle of Wight Related Information by Barry Cant - India Whiskey DX Group, About the Isle of Wight, Petanque pages and PC User Group.
Alister's Homepage - An Isle of Wight based website with information about Alister, his favourite music, sports and general information.
Wight Air Wrecks - Military air losses in and around the Isle of Wight from 1913 to the present day.
Alan Champion - Personal web site of a gp with interest in local books, maps, prints and history.
Jimdon.com - Comedy, music, news and forums.
Kevin Downer - Includes his CV, interests and university course.
Eltjo and Dawn de Vries - Describes their work and play with poetry, photo galleries and information about Shanklin Theatre.
Move to the Isle of Wight - Personal site. Extensive information on the island and its history, population, landscape, tourism and business. Includes a map, contact details and a links page.
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Personal Pages I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Personal Pages History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Personal Pages "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Personal Pages Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Personal Pages Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Personal Pages Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Personal Pages Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Personal Pages There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Personal Pages One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Personal Pages Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Personal Pages The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Personal Pages Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Personal Pages War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Personal Pages When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Personal Pages Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Personal Pages I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Personal Pages I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna "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) Personal Pages A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Personal Pages
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