Cumbria Stone Circles - A guide with photographs to some of the stone circles in Cumbria. From Visit Cumbria.
Stone Circles of Cumbria - The Cumbrian section of the site 'Selected Stone Circles' by Ian Goodall. No information - just large photographs.
Cumbria : Circles and Cairns - Photographs and brief descriptions of many of the stone circles and cairns in Cumbria. From Awenydd.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stone Circles The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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) Stone Circles
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Stone Circles A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Stone Circles
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Stone Circles "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Stone Circles
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Stone Circles If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Stone Circles Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Stone Circles
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Stone Circles Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Stone Circles
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Stone Circles Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Stone Circles
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Stone Circles 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 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Stone Circles
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Stone Circles "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Stone Circles
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Stone Circles NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Stone Circles
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Stone Circles Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Stone Circles
