OuseValley Ramblers - Organise walks in North Bedfordshire . Includes walks programme, social events, FAQs, photograph album, contacts and links to related resources. A local group of the Ramblers Association .
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Walking The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Walking
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Walking "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Walking
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Walking I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Walking
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Walking "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Walking
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Walking I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Walking Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Walking
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Walking When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walking
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Walking "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Walking
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Walking Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Walking
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Walking Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Walking
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Walking "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Walking
