Broughton-in-Furness - Chamber of Trade information, including tourism, accommodation, businesses, and places to eat.
Duddon Parish Council - Information and photographs from the parish council. Includes minutes of meetings.
Duddon Valley - General guide to the area of the Lake District between Broughton-in-Furness, Ulpha and Seathwaite. Information about places to eat, stay and shop.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Broughton-in-Furness It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "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) Broughton-in-Furness
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Broughton-in-Furness Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Broughton-in-Furness
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Broughton-in-Furness Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "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) Broughton-in-Furness
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Broughton-in-Furness 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 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Broughton-in-Furness
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Broughton-in-Furness "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Broughton-in-Furness
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Broughton-in-Furness The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Broughton-in-Furness
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Broughton-in-Furness University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Broughton-in-Furness
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Broughton-in-Furness "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Broughton-in-Furness
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Broughton-in-Furness 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. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 Broughton-in-Furness
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Broughton-in-Furness "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Broughton-in-Furness
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Broughton-in-Furness If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Broughton-in-Furness
