58' narrowboat in Cambridge - Living aboard on a narrowboat in the Fens. Includes FAQ, costings and photographs old and new.
Worldcruising - Automated position reporting system that displays a yacht's position on an interactive map. Particularly useful for anyone cruising and living aboard.
Cooking On A Broads Boat - Tips and tricks for cooking on the Norfolk Broads, along with recipes designed to make your holiday more fun.
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Living Aboard Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Living Aboard
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Living Aboard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Living Aboard
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Living Aboard By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Living Aboard
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Living Aboard Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Living Aboard
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Living Aboard For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Living Aboard
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Living Aboard The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Living Aboard
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Living Aboard "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Living Aboard
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Living Aboard I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Living Aboard
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Living Aboard A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Living Aboard
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Living Aboard Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Living Aboard
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Living Aboard "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Living Aboard
