Steve Porter Transport Group - Providing parcel, and haulage services to the island and Hampshire. Profile, services and trading terms.
Red Funnel - Offers a ferry service between the island and Southampton. Includes history, timetables and local attractions.
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-- Directions on moist towelette package If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Transport "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Transport
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Transport blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Transport
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Transport The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Transport
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Transport The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Transport
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Transport "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transport
"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) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Transport I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Transport
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Transport Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Transport
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Transport "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Transport
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Transport The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Transport Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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, Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Transport
"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) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Transport Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Transport
