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Reekies of Grasmere - Suppliers of a great variety of British quality merchandise, including ladies coats and capes, cashmere knitwear, and gents Harris Tweed jackets. Online shopping.
Grasmere Gingerbread - Makers of Sarah Nelsons's original gingerbread since 1854. History of the business, the shop and some of its famous visitors. Mail order purchasing.
Craglands Knitwear - Family knitwear business specializing in their own exclusive designs and colours of tweeds, which can be purchased in a tailored skirt or alternatively by the yard or metre.
Sam Read - Specialist independent booksellers offering a wide range of books, including many of local interest.
Grasmere Garden Centre - Privately owned garden centre in the heart of the Lake District. Online shopping for non plant items.
To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Business and Economy "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Business and Economy What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Business and Economy I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Business and Economy Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Business and Economy We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Business and Economy Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Business and Economy A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Business and Economy "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Business and Economy I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Business and Economy He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Business and Economy Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Business and Economy Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Business and Economy Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Business and Economy I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Business and Economy It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Business and Economy In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Business and Economy
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