With a fond nod to my bud, Rod Roddenberry... and tongue planted firmly in cheek:
Some of these seem a little cold and heartless to me, but after all... it is a Ferengi we're talking about.
[divider]
Some of these seem a little cold and heartless to me, but after all... it is a Ferengi we're talking about.
[divider]
- Once you're in the water... don't get out until you have to.
- Never pay more for a dive gear acquisition than you must.
- Never allow family to stand in the way of a dive opportunity.
- A man is only worth the sum of his dive possessions.
- Opportunity plus instinct equals dive pleasure.
- The need for water immersion is eternal.
- A dive contract is a dive contract ... until a better one comes along.
- A diver without gear and no logged dives is no diver at all.
- Satisfaction is not guaranteed.
- Never place friendship above diving.
- A wise man can hear diving in the wind and water.
- Nothing is more important than your health--except for your diving.
- There's nothing more funny than a scuba-gear-clad diver, standing in their living room, in a Facebook profile picture.
- Never make fun of a diver's mother ... insult something he cares about instead.
- It never hurts to suck up to the dive store owner.
- She can touch your whoo ha, but never your reg.
- Diving is its own reward.
- Never confuse wisdom with luck.
- Expand your gear inventory... or wither away.
- Don't trust a man wearing a better wet/dry suit than your own.
- The bigger the smile, the sharper the dive knife.
- There is no substitute for success.
- Free advice is seldom cheap.
- Keep your fish stories consistent.
- Good vis or bad, there's always nudibranchs.
- Home is where the heart is ... but the stars are made of sand dollars.
- Every once in a while, declare you're done with diving. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
- Ask not what your diving can do for you, but what you can do for your diving.
- Enough diving ... is never enough.
- Nature decays, but dive stories last forever.
- Sleep can interfere with diving.
- There is no honour in excess surface intervals.
- Politeness getting on the swim step and an empty sack... is worth the sack.
- Treat divers in your debt like family ... exploit them.
- Even a blind man can recognize the glow of a UK Light Cannon.
- Even in the worst of times someone goes diving.
- Never lie to an instructor ... they always know.
- The justification for diving is diving.
- Never begin a dive on an empty stomach.
- Dive memories last longer than lust.
- A wife is a luxury ... a dive computer is a necessity.
- When in doubt... dive.
- Deep down everyone's a diver.
