Marlow Regatta - One of the top domestic regattas in the UK. Attracts many Henley Royal Regatta entrants both domestic and international.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Rowing Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rowing
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Rowing A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Rowing
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Rowing 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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Rowing
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Rowing "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Rowing
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Rowing A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Rowing
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Rowing The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Rowing
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Rowing "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Rowing
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Rowing I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Rowing
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Rowing The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Rowing
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Rowing Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Rowing
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Rowing We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rowing
