Seaview Hotel - A small hotel situated in John O'Groats renowned for great food.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Castletown and John O'Groats The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Castletown and John O'Groats
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Castletown and John O'Groats At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Castletown and John O'Groats
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Think off-center." (George Carlin) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Castletown and John O'Groats He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Castletown and John O'Groats
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Castletown and John O'Groats "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Castletown and John O'Groats
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Castletown and John O'Groats "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Castletown and John O'Groats
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Castletown and John O'Groats Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Castletown and John O'Groats
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Castletown and John O'Groats "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Castletown and John O'Groats
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Castletown and John O'Groats Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Castletown and John O'Groats
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Castletown and John O'Groats If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Castletown and John O'Groats
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Castletown and John O'Groats Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Castletown and John O'Groats
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Castletown and John O'Groats Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Castletown and John O'Groats
