Walks Around Arlesey - Detailing several circular walks around the village, designed to show the diverse range of environment and wildlife.
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Recreation and Sports 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Recreation and Sports
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Recreation and Sports
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Recreation and Sports
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Recreation and Sports They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Recreation and Sports
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Recreation and Sports
