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• Sailing: The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Aneroid Barometer: Meteorological instrument which sailors often use to confirm the onset of bad weather.
  Its readings, together with heavy rain, severe rolling, high winds, dark skies, and a deep cloud cover, indicate the presence of a storm....
• Battery: Electrochemical storage device capable of lighting an incandescent lamp of a wattage about equal to that of a refrigerator bulb for a period of 15 minutes after having been charged for 2 hours.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Berth: Any horizontal surface whose total area does not exceed one half of the surface area of an average person at re
  onto which at least one liter of some liquid seeps during any 12-hour period, and above which there are not less than 10 kilograms of improperly secured objects....
• Chronometer: Precision instrument which registers sharp impacts by displaying a telltale spiderweb pattern on its glass face
  by the absence of a normal ticking sound when held to the ear, or by the presence of small, loose pieces moving around within its case when shaken....
• I thought that you said you were 20 years old!" "As a programmer, yes," she replied, "And you claimed to be very near two meters tall!
  "You said you were blonde, but you lied!" Oh, she was a hacker and he was one, too, They had so much in common, you'd say....
• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
  -- Herbert Henry Lehma...
• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. -- Mary Webb
• The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...