Cockermouth Online - A guide for visitors and locals to the facilities, businesses and events of the CA13 Cockermouth area.
Welcome to Dean - Dean Community Development Centre describe the area around Dean, Cumbria, its attractions, accommodation, school and businesses.
Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team - The official mountain rescue team covering the Buttermere, Ennerdale, Lorton and Loweswater valley areas of the Lake District.
West House, Cockermouth - A charitable organisation providing a range of community based support services to people with learning disabilities living in West Cumbria.
The Cumbria Directory Cockermouth - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Cockermouth Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Cockermouth
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Cockermouth "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Cockermouth
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cockermouth Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Cockermouth
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Cockermouth It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Cockermouth
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Cockermouth "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Cockermouth
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Cockermouth For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Cockermouth
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Cockermouth "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Cockermouth
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cockermouth "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Cockermouth
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Cockermouth The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Cockermouth
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Cockermouth Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Cockermouth
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cockermouth "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Cockermouth
