islandbagging in scotland - A new challenge - get to the highest point of all the Scottish islands. A marine version of Munrobagging.
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Sailing and Boating It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Sailing and Boating
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Sailing and Boating If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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,
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Sailing and Boating
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "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) Sailing and Boating Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Sailing and Boating
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Sailing and Boating It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Sailing and Boating
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Sailing and Boating Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Sailing and Boating
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Sailing and Boating "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Sailing and Boating
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Sailing and Boating Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Sailing and Boating
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Sailing and Boating I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Sailing and Boating
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sailing and Boating There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Sailing and Boating
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sailing and Boating You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Sailing and Boating
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sailing and Boating Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Sailing and Boating
