Stott Park Bobbin Mill - A working reminder of the Lake District's industrial heritage, where you can still see wooden bobbins made in the traditional way. In the care of English Heritage.
The Aquarium of The Lakes - Display of wildlife and freshwater creatures dwelling in and alongside the waters of the Lake District. Facilities, prices, news and special events.
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Travel and Tourism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Travel and Tourism
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Travel and Tourism >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Travel and Tourism
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Travel and Tourism One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Travel and Tourism
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Travel and Tourism All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Travel and Tourism
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Travel and Tourism
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
