Aspatria Town - Written for Aspatria Town Council and those with an interest in promoting Aspatria. Information about the town and the town council. Meeting minutes, and list of councillors. Online community newspaper. Regeneration details.
Pre-Norman Stone Crosses at Aspatria - A guide to some of the ancient relics, including some Anglo-Danish fragments at St kentigern's Church, Aspatria.
Oughterside Brass Band - Information and history about the brass band in the small village of Oughterside, near Aspatria.
The Cumbria Directory Aspatria - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Aspatria Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Aspatria
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Aspatria It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Aspatria
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Aspatria The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Aspatria
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Aspatria A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Aspatria
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Aspatria Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Aspatria
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Aspatria Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Aspatria
"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) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Aspatria Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Aspatria
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Aspatria I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 Aspatria
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Aspatria Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Aspatria
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Aspatria Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Aspatria
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aspatria I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Aspatria
