PatterdaleHall - Residential Outdoor Centre - A venue for outdoor activities on the shores of Ullswater. Activities range from sailing, canoeing and climbing to gorge exploring, walking and archery.
Glenridding Sailing Centre - Based on the southern shores of Lake Ullswater. The Glenridding Sailing Centre offers tuition, sail boat hire, canoeing, launching of boats and storage. Staff are fully qualified and a safety boat is on hand at all times. Only 2 minutes walk to the shops, cafes, b&b's and hotels.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Recreation and Sports To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Recreation and Sports
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Recreation and Sports 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 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Recreation and Sports
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Recreation and Sports
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Recreation and Sports Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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. Recreation and Sports In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Recreation and Sports
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Recreation and Sports The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
