4th Knowle Sea Scout Group - Includes fun page, program information, events, and contacts for Cubs and Scouts.
Knowle Society - Established to maintain the character of the village. Includes local history, meetings, contacts and photos.
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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Society and Culture "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Society and Culture
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Society and Culture
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Society and Culture "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) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Society and Culture
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Society and Culture I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Society and Culture
