Hawkshead Traders Association - The official Web site of the Hawkshead Traders Association, representing the prettiest village in the English Lake District.
Grizedale - The official site of the Grizedale Sculpture Trail, Grizedale Forest, Lake District.
The Cumbria Directory Hawkshead - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Hawkshead The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Hawkshead
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Hawkshead Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Hawkshead
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hawkshead Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Hawkshead
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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Hawkshead People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Hawkshead
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Hawkshead "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Hawkshead
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Hawkshead 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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Hawkshead
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Hawkshead Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Hawkshead
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) 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 Hawkshead Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Hawkshead
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Hawkshead The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Hawkshead
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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Hawkshead He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Hawkshead
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Hawkshead Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Hawkshead
