Milton Keynes Ramblers - Walks programme, contact and membership details, notes for new walkers and links to related resources .
Wycombe Group of The Ramblers Association - Walks are held on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and range from half-day walks (approximately 3 to 5 miles) to full-day walks (approximately 6 to 18 miles). Contact details and walks programme .
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Walking "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Walking
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Walking "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Walking
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Walking The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Walking
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Walking Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Walking
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Walking Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Walking
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Walking Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Walking
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Walking "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) 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
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Walking "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Walking
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Walking 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Walking
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Walking The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Walking
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Walking An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Walking
