ISAC 1871 Dive Club - Invicta Sub Aqua Club offers diving activities and training. Includes membership information, events, dive reports and training courses.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Recreation and Sports Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Recreation and Sports Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Recreation and Sports
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is a rest period between romances. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Recreation and Sports
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Recreation and Sports It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Recreation and Sports "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) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports
