Kent Boat and Ski Club - Includes club history, events, news and membership information.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Cuxton In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Cuxton
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cuxton Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Cuxton
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "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 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Cuxton The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Cuxton
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Cuxton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Cuxton
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 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Cuxton "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Cuxton
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Cuxton These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Cuxton
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Cuxton The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Cuxton
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cuxton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Cuxton
"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) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "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 Cuxton It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Cuxton
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Cuxton 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Cuxton
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Cuxton An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Cuxton
