National Trust Campsites - Descriptions of the facilities of the three campsites in Cumbria operated by the National Trust.
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Camping and Caravans Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Camping and Caravans "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Camping and Caravans
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Camping and Caravans "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Camping and Caravans
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Camping and Caravans Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Camping and Caravans
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Camping and Caravans People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Camping and Caravans
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Camping and Caravans There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Camping and Caravans
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Camping and Caravans "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Camping and Caravans
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Camping and Caravans Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Camping and Caravans
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Camping and Caravans "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Camping and Caravans
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Camping and Caravans Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Camping and Caravans
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Camping and Caravans I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Camping and Caravans
