Patterdale Patter - Discussion board for the Patterdale, Deepdale, and Glenridding area of Cumbria. Includes census information, Parish registers, family and local history.
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glenridding Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Glenridding
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Glenridding Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Glenridding
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Glenridding Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Glenridding
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Glenridding Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Glenridding
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Glenridding "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Glenridding
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Glenridding "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) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Glenridding
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Glenridding Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Glenridding
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Glenridding "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glenridding
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glenridding Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Glenridding
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Glenridding "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Glenridding
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Glenridding "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Glenridding
