The Dock Museum, Barrow - A modern museum built over an original Victorian Graving Dock, were you can explore the fascinating history of Barrow-in-Furness.
Barrow Tourism - Official guide to tourism in the Barrow-in-Furness area.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Travel and Tourism
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Travel and Tourism
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Travel and Tourism "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Travel and Tourism
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 Travel and Tourism
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Travel and Tourism I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism
