The Village of Cartmel - Village guide, including Cartmel Priory, the village, businesses, accommodation, restaurants, walks and other outdoor activities.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Cartmel "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Cartmel
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Cartmel The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Cartmel
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Cartmel My other wife is beautiful. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Cartmel
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Cartmel Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) Cartmel
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Cartmel Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Cartmel
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Cartmel I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Cartmel
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Cartmel No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Cartmel
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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. Cartmel Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Cartmel
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Cartmel "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Cartmel
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Cartmel The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cartmel
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Cartmel "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Cartmel
