Black Combe Runners - Small Cumbrian fell and road running club on the south west edge of the Lake District, which organises four races.
The Kepplewray Centre - Outdoor adventure centre in Broughton-in-Furness ideal for school and university field courses. Specialises in including those with disabilities.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Recreation and Sports
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Recreation and Sports Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Recreation and Sports
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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Recreation and Sports You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow 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" Recreation and Sports It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Recreation and Sports I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports
