Eskdale - Guide to the Eskdale area of the Lake District National Park. Accommodation, events, attractions, churches, history, and outdoor activities.
Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team - Information about the mountain rescue team from Wasdale - home of England's highest mountain - Scafell Pike.
The Cumbria Directory Eskdale - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Eskdale I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Eskdale
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Eskdale There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Eskdale
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Eskdale "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Eskdale
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Eskdale "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Eskdale
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Eskdale Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Eskdale
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Eskdale All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Eskdale
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Eskdale "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 Eskdale
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Eskdale "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Eskdale
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) 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 figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Eskdale If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Eskdale
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eskdale In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eskdale
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Eskdale Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Eskdale
