Millom Historical Contacts - Contact addresses for researchers into the town of Millom in South West Cumbria, UK
The Cumbria Directory Millom - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Millom Credits Federation - A federation of four Community Development Centres (CDCs), based in local schools around the area: Haverigg Primary, Thwaites School, Millom School and Waberthwaite CE School. Details and costs of the computer courses.
Haverigg Inshore Rescue - An independant lifeboat operated entirely by volunteers and covers Duddon Estuary and sections of Morecambe Bay. History, photos and events.
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Millom "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millom
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Millom Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Millom
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Millom In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Millom
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Millom There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Millom
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Millom Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Millom
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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Millom I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Millom
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Millom True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Millom
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Millom "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Millom
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Millom A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Millom
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Millom I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Millom
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Millom There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Millom
