Lake District Coast Aquarium - Comprehensive display of local marine and freshwater life. Situated on the harbour at Maryport.
Senhouse Roman Museum - The Museum is home to the oldest collection of Roman artefacts in Britain, and adjacent to the remains of a Roman Fort from which many of the artefacts have been recovered.
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Travel and Tourism It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Travel and Tourism
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 "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Travel and Tourism "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Travel and Tourism
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Travel and Tourism Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Travel and Tourism
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Travel and Tourism I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Travel and Tourism The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Travel and Tourism
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Travel and Tourism If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Travel and Tourism "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) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Travel and Tourism I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism
