Sea Cadet National Diving Website - An informational website on diving within the UK Sea Cadets. Information on courses, past courses and general diving information.
Bounty Boys History Page - A site that gives some information about the history of the UK Sea cadets, particularly around 1940's.
The Sea Cadet HQ - The Sea Cadets UK Headquarters web site - A National Youth Organisation for Boys and Girls aged 12-18. Information and details about the organisation, its aims and activities.
Sea Cadet National Communication website - An informational website on communication specialisation within the UK Sea Cadets. Information on courses and general communication information.
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Sea Cadet Corps Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Sea Cadet Corps
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Sea Cadet Corps "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sea Cadet Corps
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Sea Cadet Corps If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Sea Cadet Corps
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Sea Cadet Corps Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Sea Cadet Corps
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Sea Cadet Corps A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sea Cadet Corps blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Sea Cadet Corps
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Sea Cadet Corps "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Sea Cadet Corps
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Sea Cadet Corps If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Sea Cadet Corps
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sea Cadet Corps 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sea Cadet Corps
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Sea Cadet Corps Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Sea Cadet Corps
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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.
-- George Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Sea Cadet Corps "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Sea Cadet Corps
