Knowhere Guide to Cambridge - A youth-oriented guide, supplied by locals. Lists "Hook-up Spots" and "Skateboard Spots", and has events and eating guides.
The City of Cambridge Visitor Guide - An overview of the attractions worth visiting in Cambridge, including the colleges and museums, from Mushroom Publishing.
Traveller's World - Cambridge - With contact information for many hotels, youth hostels and bread and breakfasts, from the Traveller's World Guide.
Rainbow Network Cambridge - Details of spiritual, healing and ecologic events, groups and connections. Includes an organic shopping guide.
Cambridge Corners - Suggestions for walks and cycle rides in and around Cambridge.
Cambridge Travel Guide - Guide to Bus, Train, Taxi and Coach Services in and around the City of Cambridge.
Granta Punt Hire Company - Traditional punt hire, Canadian canoes, and rowing boats. Guided river tours through the famous Cambridge Colleges. Tourist Information.
Dynamic Tour of Cambridge - Panoramic photographs of the town centre, river and some of the colleges.
Cambridge Tailor-Made Tours - Offers a professional tourist guiding service for the city. Describes the organisation and its tours.
Prestige Tours of Cambridge - Personalised guided tours of the City and surrounding area. Includes details of tours, a picture gallery and web cams.
Visit Cambridge - Official information from the City Council.
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- Mae West It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism
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-- Nancy Mitford Travel and Tourism
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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...the fog is rising.
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If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
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He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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-- General George Patton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
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-- William James Travel and Tourism Epperson's law:
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-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Travel and Tourism Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Travel and Tourism
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
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-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Assassins!
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