JDH Direct Motor Spares - Supply most spare parts for most makes of cars and trucks. Have a computerised stock control and electronic cataloguing system which can quickly locate and dispatch spares.
The Spyglass Inn - A public house on the western end of Ventnor Esplanade. Includes details about the history of the public house and details of its facilities.
The Smuggling Museum - A museum covering over 700 years of smuggling around the Isle of Wight coast. Includes information about the museum, its location and opening times. Requires Flash.
thewebshop.co.uk - A company offering website design services. Includes a portfolio and contact details.
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Ventnor blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Ventnor
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Ventnor The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Ventnor
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Ventnor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Ventnor
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Ventnor A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Ventnor
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Ventnor "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Ventnor
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ventnor The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Ventnor
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Ventnor Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "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) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ventnor
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Ventnor If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Ventnor
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Ventnor The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ventnor
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Ventnor The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Ventnor Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ventnor
