Howtown Outdoor Activity Center - Pursuits including sailing, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, night navigation, walking, camping, windsurfing, and hiking.
Ullswater Yacht Club - Situated on the North East shore of Lake Ullswater, about 2 miles from Pooley Bridge, promotes and facilitates the sport of sailing, both racing and cruising, on Ullswater.
Rookin House Equestrian and Activity Centre - A wide range of activities, catering for all the family, conveniently situated at Troutbeck, 4 miles from Ullswater, and 8 miles from both Keswick and Penrith. Activities include driving an Abbott Battle Tank.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 Recreation and Sports
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Recreation and Sports
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Recreation and Sports
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Recreation and Sports Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Recreation and Sports Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Recreation and Sports
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) 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.
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Recreation and Sports
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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Recreation and Sports When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Recreation and Sports
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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Recreation and Sports Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
