Dungeness - Includes brief local history and a guide to local landmarks and attractions.
Dungeness Bird Observatory - Includes sightings, observatory facilities and accommodation, birdwatching information, plus guide to the area's flora and fauna.
The Old Lighthouse - Features history, opening times, photos and location.
The Pilot Inn - Pub with restaurant. Includes menu, directions and photos. Also features local RSPB Reserve bulletin and photos of the sound mirrors.
M.M. Richardson Produce - Family owned fresh fish supplier situated on the Dungeness Point. Includes online catalogue, ordering information and recipes.
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Dungeness "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Dungeness
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Dungeness Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 Dungeness
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Dungeness "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Dungeness
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Dungeness Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dungeness
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Dungeness They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Dungeness
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dungeness "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Dungeness
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. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Dungeness A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Dungeness
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Dungeness Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Dungeness
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Dungeness Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Dungeness
"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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Dungeness He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Dungeness
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Dungeness Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Dungeness
