R.D. Johnston & Company - Marine loss adjusters and surveyors offering boat appraisal throughout the UK and Europe. We can also offer a full claims handling and investigation service.
Barrie Morse - Surveys carried out on all types of vessel. Main areas covered: The Midlands and Thames Valley, national coverage available.
R. Pearce & Co - Safety Surveys on all type of vessels. Marine and Coastguard Agency Code of Practice surveys, condition surveys and general examinations of all types of small craft and yachts. Based at Falmouth. Falmouth, Cornwall.
McAusland & Turner Ltd. - Offers marine and cargo surveying, engineering consulting and P&I Club correspondents.
David Fuller Marine Surveyor & Consultant UK - Offers build and repair oversight, pre-purchase condition surveys, insurance surveys and valuations, expert witness and litigation.
Keel Marine - Hampshire based marine consultants, designers and surveyors. Provide many services, including offshore and project management. Full contact details provided.
Jonathan Milton - Small craft and yacht surveyor covering Cornwall and Devon.
Martyn Silvester, Marine Surveyor - Specialising in motorboat survey reports, yacht registration and tonnage measurements across Europe. Offering maritime consultant services, boat engine inspections and guidance.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marine Surveyors Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marine Surveyors
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marine Surveyors "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marine Surveyors
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marine Surveyors It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marine Surveyors
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marine Surveyors "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marine Surveyors
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Marine Surveyors I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marine Surveyors
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Marine Surveyors The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Marine Surveyors
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marine Surveyors If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marine Surveyors
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marine Surveyors "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Marine Surveyors
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Marine Surveyors The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marine Surveyors
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marine Surveyors "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marine Surveyors
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marine Surveyors "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marine Surveyors
