Cumbria on the Web - A webring aimed at promoting web sites in Cumbria and the Lake District.
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-- Mike Binder "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Web Rings "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Web Rings
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Web Rings "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Web Rings
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Web Rings It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Web Rings
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Web Rings "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Web Rings
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Web Rings We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Web Rings
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Web Rings "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) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Web Rings
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Web Rings I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Web Rings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Web Rings When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Web Rings
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Web Rings The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Web Rings
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Web Rings "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Web Rings
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Web Rings 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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Web Rings
