The Cumbria Directory Greystoke - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Greystoke Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Greystoke
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Greystoke If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Greystoke
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Greystoke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Greystoke
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Greystoke Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Greystoke
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Greystoke "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Greystoke
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Greystoke A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Greystoke
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Greystoke He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Greystoke
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Greystoke Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Greystoke
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Greystoke A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "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) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Greystoke
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Greystoke The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Greystoke
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Greystoke Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Greystoke
