New Brighton Lifeboat - Includes news, boat and rescue statistics, a history of the service, and photos.
The New Brighton History Site - Histories of the Tower, Ferries, Fort, Pier, Lighthouse, Mother Redcap's, and the open air pool. Plus notices form people looking to contact old friends, links, and local history books.
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expect i I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "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 Society and Culture
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 "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Society and Culture
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Society and Culture
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) Society and Culture
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Society and Culture
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Society and Culture "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Society and Culture Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture
