BBC Sport: MacArthur romps home in Rhum - Ellen MacArthur wins the Route du Rhum single-handed transatlantic race in a record-breaking time. Links to other news items on this, and Ellen's logbook of the journey.
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) MacArthur, Ellen When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) MacArthur, Ellen
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach MacArthur, Ellen "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright MacArthur, Ellen
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie MacArthur, Ellen If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy MacArthur, Ellen
"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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) MacArthur, Ellen "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan MacArthur, Ellen
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. MacArthur, Ellen 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper MacArthur, Ellen
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) MacArthur, Ellen Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) MacArthur, Ellen
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) MacArthur, Ellen Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe MacArthur, Ellen
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner My other wife is beautiful. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie MacArthur, Ellen "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw MacArthur, Ellen
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde MacArthur, Ellen My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 MacArthur, Ellen
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables MacArthur, Ellen 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) MacArthur, Ellen
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown MacArthur, Ellen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde MacArthur, Ellen
