Crook and Weardale Ramblers - Organise a regular programme of walks which range from 5-13 miles in areas from the Lake District to the Yorkshire Dales and local walks in the Wear Valley.
The Ramblers Association - Durham Group - Lead walks locally, roughly once a month at the weekend, right round the year . Includes walks programme, favourite walks and contacts .
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Walking "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Walking
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Walking Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Walking
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Walking The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Walking It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Walking
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Walking Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Walking
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Walking "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Walking
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Walking He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Walking
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Walking It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Walking
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Walking There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Walking
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Walking "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Walking
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Walking He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Walking
