The Cumbria Directory Newby Bridge - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Newby Bridge 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Newby Bridge
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Newby Bridge Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Newby Bridge
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Newby Bridge Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Newby Bridge
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "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) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Newby Bridge Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Newby Bridge
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Newby Bridge A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Newby Bridge
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Newby Bridge "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Newby Bridge
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Newby Bridge Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Newby Bridge
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Newby Bridge 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, However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Newby Bridge
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Newby Bridge Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Newby Bridge
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Newby Bridge A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Newby Bridge
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Newby Bridge Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Newby Bridge
