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Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum - Dove Cottage, in Grasmere, was William Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1808, where he wrote much of his poetry, and his sister Dorothy kept her famous journals. The house is open to the public, and there is a separate museum of art works and memorabilia.
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Travel and Tourism "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Travel and Tourism "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Travel and Tourism Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "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) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel and Tourism Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Travel and Tourism Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Travel and Tourism "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Travel and Tourism Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett "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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "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 Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism My other wife is beautiful. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Travel and Tourism No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw "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) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Travel and Tourism Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Travel and Tourism Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Travel and Tourism "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
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