Arnside Online - Information guide detailing the seaside town of Arnside.
Arnside Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - A landscape of special importance straddling the boundary of Cumbria and Lancashire. The Limestone geology of the area provides a complex mosaic of habitats. Details of the conservation projects, the Limestone Heritage Project, and the local Landscape Trust.
The Cumbria Directory: Arnside - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Arnside - A personal guide to Arnside, Cumbria, with lots of photographs.
Arnside - Personal website with photos of Arnside.
The Arnside Gateway - A collection of resources related to Arnside and its immediate area. Parish council minutes, walks, photos, and news.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arnside Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Arnside
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Arnside The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Arnside
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 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "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) Arnside Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Arnside
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Arnside The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Arnside
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "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) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arnside "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Arnside
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "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) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arnside A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Arnside
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Arnside blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Arnside
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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 We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arnside "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Arnside
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Arnside "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arnside
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Arnside "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arnside
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Arnside Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Arnside