Grange-over-Sands - Official web site for Grange-over-Sands, an Edwardian seaside resort between the English Lake District and Morecambe Bay.
Grange Now - Online version of the Grange-over-Sands local newspaper. Information and whatson guide.
The Cumbria Directory Grange-Over-Sands - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Berners - The official website for Cartmel Peninsula Recreational Trust, who have raised funds to build a swimming pool for Grange and surrounding area and will run it as a not-for-profit organisation. Details of the plans and architecture.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Grange-over-Sands I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Grange-over-Sands
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Grange-over-Sands Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Grange-over-Sands
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Grange-over-Sands Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Grange-over-Sands
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Grange-over-Sands "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Grange-over-Sands
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Grange-over-Sands The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Grange-over-Sands
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Grange-over-Sands The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Grange-over-Sands
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Grange-over-Sands Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Grange-over-Sands
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Grange-over-Sands Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Grange-over-Sands
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Grange-over-Sands The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Grange-over-Sands
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"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) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Grange-over-Sands "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Grange-over-Sands
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Grange-over-Sands "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Grange-over-Sands
