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The Cumbria Directory Maryport - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Dearham Village Guide. - A guide for residents and visitors to Dearham, with information and history about the village.
Solway Rural Initiative - For information on wildlife, heritage, tourism and landscape in and around the Solway coast and plain.
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Maryport Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Maryport
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Maryport Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Maryport
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maryport 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 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Maryport
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Maryport "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Maryport
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Maryport Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Maryport
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Maryport The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Maryport
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "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) Maryport "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Maryport
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Maryport Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Maryport
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Maryport Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Maryport
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Maryport "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 Maryport
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Maryport 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Maryport
