Port of Plymouth Canoeing Association - A thriving canoe and kayak club in Plymouth, Devon. Activities include whitewater, surf, sea kayaking, coaching, recreation and having fun.
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Canoes and Kayaks You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Canoes and Kayaks
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Canoes and Kayaks "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Canoes and Kayaks
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Canoes and Kayaks Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Canoes and Kayaks
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Canoes and Kayaks Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Canoes and Kayaks
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 "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Canoes and Kayaks Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Canoes and Kayaks
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Canoes and Kayaks To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Canoes and Kayaks
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Canoes and Kayaks I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Canoes and Kayaks
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Canoes and Kayaks Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Canoes and Kayaks
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Canoes and Kayaks Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Canoes and Kayaks
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Canoes and Kayaks If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Canoes and Kayaks
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Canoes and Kayaks If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Canoes and Kayaks
