The Cumbria Directory Orton - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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-- John Cage A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "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) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Orton Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Orton
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Orton My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Orton If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Orton
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Orton Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Orton
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Orton The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Orton
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Orton "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Orton
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito 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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Orton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Orton
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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.
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Orton Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Orton
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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Orton All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Orton
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Orton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Orton
