Borrowdale Fell Runners - Cumbria UK. Mainly a fell club, although members also run cross-country and road. Have won English Senior Mens Fell Championships for the last six years.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Recreation and Sports A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Recreation and Sports
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Recreation and Sports "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Recreation and Sports Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Recreation and Sports There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Recreation and Sports
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Recreation and Sports Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Recreation and Sports
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Recreation and Sports We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports
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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Recreation and Sports He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Recreation and Sports
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Recreation and Sports
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Recreation and Sports If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Recreation and Sports Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
