Royal Yachting Association - National Association promoting watersports interests in the UK. News, club and training information covering all regions and watersports types is listed.
Marsbrook Boating - RYA and ASA sailing schools offering the complete range of sailing courses. Lists newsletter, yacht charter, cruises and training information.
LPG Boats - Information on the benefits of Marine Gas as an alternative fuel to petrol. Step by step overview of how to convert a petrol engine to gas.
Cowes Harbour Commission - Yachting at Cowes on the Isle of Wight including the harbour facilities, marinas, yacht clubs and a harbour map.
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sailing and Boating The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 Sailing and Boating
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sailing and Boating Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Sailing and Boating
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sailing and Boating 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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Sailing and Boating
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sailing and Boating If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Sailing and Boating
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Sailing and Boating "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Sailing and Boating
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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, Sailing and Boating Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Sailing and Boating
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Sailing and Boating Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Sailing and Boating
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Sailing and Boating "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Sailing and Boating
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Sailing and Boating "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Sailing and Boating
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Sailing and Boating America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sailing and Boating
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Sailing and Boating "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Sailing and Boating
