FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO DIVE
It is a far, far better wreck that I dive, than I have ever dived; it is a far, far better reef that I go to, than I have ever known. (Charles Dickens)
Diving is all we know of heaven. (Emily Dickens)
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to be only a diver playing on the wreck, and diverting myself in now and then finding a shinier porthole or a heavier bell than ordinary, whilst the great Moldavia lay all undiscovered before me. (Isaac Newton)
Literature is mostly about going diving and not much about removing portholes; life is the other way round. (David Lodge)
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for divers to dive in. (David Lloyd George)
Earth's the right place for diving. (Robert Frost)
Salus extra bsacus non est. There's no salvation outside the BSAC. (St. Cyprian)
If Cleopatra's regulator hose had been shorter the whole of history of the world would have been different. (Blaise Pascal)
Much may be made of a diver, if he be a member of the BSAC. (Samuel Johnson)
Here's looking at you, fish. (Humphrey Bogart)
Look, Ma! Bottom of the ocean! (James Cagney)
Diving is the club members' pleasure. (John Dryden)
France has more need of diving than diving has need of France. (Napoleon I)
L'Angleterre est une nation de plongiers. England is a nation of divers. (Napoleon I)
Oft, in the silty cove. (Thomas Moore)
The information contained within this page is intended for amusement only.
Written by Andrew Pugsley.
E-mail: diver@ukgateway.net
Featured in the April-May 1997 issue of School Diver magazine.
