St Bees - A Cumbrian Coastal Village - A comprehensive guide to the history and facilities of the small village on the Western coast of Cumbria, which is a popular holiday resort.
St Bees Lighthouse - A brief guide to the lighthouse on St Bees Head. From Trinity House, who run all the UK lighthouses.
Head to Head - An illustrated summary of a book by David Grech, which traces a 600-mile walk across England from Beachy Head in Sussex to St Bees Head, sketching the regional variations in vernacular architecture.
The Cumbria Directory St Bees - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
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-- Pancho Villa, dying words Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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- George Washington Carver I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher St Bees
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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-- Mark Russell The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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-- Shecky Greene Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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-- Michael Meissner You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams St Bees
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro St Bees Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) St Bees
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
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-- Aristotle Onassis My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! St Bees
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B St Bees Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Fred Allen St Bees
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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-- Albert Einstein Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) St Bees
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
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-- Lucille S. Harper I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa St Bees If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) St Bees
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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) St Bees If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) St Bees
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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-- Alphonse Allais "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? St Bees
