Copeland Borough Council - Located on the Cumbrian coast with two thirds of the Borough lying within the Lake District National Park, Copeland encompasses Scafell Pike and Wastwater. Contains detailed information on the region including tourism, the economy and local maps.
Cumbria County Council - The Council is an elected authority which provides a wide range of services for local people, visitors and the business community.
Allerdale Borough Council - Covers the Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth and Keswick areas. Contains detailed information on the region including tourism, the economy and local maps.
Eden District Council - Information on Eden District Council services, plus contact points.
Planning Cumbria - Cumbria County Council and the Lake District National Park Authority are currently reviewing the Structure Plan - a key document which helps to shape the future development of the county. Views are invited.
South Lakeland District Council - Business Gateway - Economic development service provides advice and guidance to business. Includes information on grants, land and premises, support agencies, and the social economy.
Carlisle City Council - Local council for Carlisle - the border city, and administrative centre of Cumbria.
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) >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 Government In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Government
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Government
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Government "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Government
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Government Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Government
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Government In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Government
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "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) Government Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Government
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen .. 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Government
"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) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Government
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Government I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Government
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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) Government 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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Government
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "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) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Government 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Government
