Barrow in Furness Borough Council - Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council - offering information, contacts and online services for residents and visitors in the Furness area of Cumbria.
South Lakes - For ex-Furness people who like to keep in touch with the area and to be able to view photos of the ever changing state of the area. Aimed purely for ex patriots and people who have moved away from the area.
Submariners Association (Barrow) - Includes a history of Barrow built submarines, news, diary, forum, membership data, articles, downloads and FAQs.
Furness On-line - A guide to the facilities of the Furness area of South Cumbria. Attractions, where to stay, where to eat, entertainment and what's on.
Barrow CRC - Barrow Community Regeneration Company is a non-profit making company and charity working towards community and social development in Barrow and Furness. Details of the projects.
Voiceonline - Community website for Barrow and Furness. An opportunity for local people in Furness to air their views and find out information. Includes forum, news and what's on.
The Cumbria Directory: Barrow-In-Furness - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Furness Young Carers - Offers support, advice and information for young carers in the Furness area. Contact details and links.
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Barrow-in-Furness A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Barrow-in-Furness
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Barrow-in-Furness There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Barrow-in-Furness
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Barrow-in-Furness Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Barrow-in-Furness
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Barrow-in-Furness Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Barrow-in-Furness
"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 jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Barrow-in-Furness It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Barrow-in-Furness
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'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Barrow-in-Furness Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Barrow-in-Furness
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Barrow-in-Furness He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Barrow-in-Furness
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Barrow-in-Furness He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Barrow-in-Furness
"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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Barrow-in-Furness History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Barrow-in-Furness
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Barrow-in-Furness "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Barrow-in-Furness
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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Barrow-in-Furness Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Barrow-in-Furness
