Cleator Moor - Local History - Explore the history of this small Cumbrian town through the pages of Tom Duffy's website. Learn about the towns people, industry, disasters, religion, education and entertainment.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church - Cleator - Information and history of this church, which is home to the renowned Grotto, an identical replica of Lourdes - a place of annual pilgrimage and a centre of devotion. Photo album.
The Cumbria Directory Cleator Moor - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cleator Moor "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Cleator Moor
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Cleator Moor "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Cleator Moor
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Cleator Moor When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cleator Moor
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Cleator Moor Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Cleator Moor
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Cleator Moor "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Cleator Moor
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Cleator Moor "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 My other wife is beautiful. Cleator Moor
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Cleator Moor That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Cleator Moor
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Cleator Moor One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Cleator Moor
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Cleator Moor Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Cleator Moor
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Cleator Moor Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Cleator Moor
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Cleator Moor 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Cleator Moor
