Kingfisher Challenges - Follows Ellen MacArthur's sailing exploits with Team Kingfisher.
World Crusing Club - Organisers of rally events including the ARC, Rally Portugal and ARC Europe.
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Events Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Events
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 "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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Events Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Events
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Events "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Events
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Events It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Events
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Events Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Events
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Events My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Events
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is a rest period between romances. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Events Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Events
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Events It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Events
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Events A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Events
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Events Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Events
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Events If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Events
