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Ulverston Online - The towns official site with information on the Lake District, the areas tourism and Ulverston attractions.
Ulverston in Cumbria - Independent guide to the history and places of interest in and around Ulverston.
Ulverston Heritage Centre - Charity dedicated to the preservation, restoration and public use of town artefacts, documents and pictures.
Furness Railway Trust - Provides details of the trust and its activities, with an emphasis on railway preservation.
Kirkby-in-Furness - Community news for the Kirkby-in-Furness area, including churches, sports council and parish council.
Pre-Norman Stone Crosses at Urswick Church - A guide to the ancient crosses and relics at St Mary and St Michael's Church in Great Urswick.
Virtual Ulverston - A selection of linked panoramic views of Ulverston Town, centered on the Market Cross.
Northern Pet and House Sitters - Offer a service where they look after your pet and/or house whilst you are away from home.
Ulverston Health Centre - Provides contact details of the doctors and other medical information.
The Cumbria Directory Ulverston - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Conishead Priory - Manjushri Mahayana Buddhist Centre. Teachings, classes and information on the International Buddhist Festival held each year.
Explore Low Furness - Guide to the history and heritage of the Low Furness area of Cumbria. Includes church trail, visitor information, and newsletter.
My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Ulverston The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Ulverston ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Ulverston I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Ulverston "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken 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. Ulverston Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Ulverston A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Ulverston "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Ulverston The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Ulverston Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Ulverston "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Ulverston "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Ulverston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "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) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Ulverston "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain Ulverston "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Ulverston A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Ulverston May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West 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 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ulverston If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Ulverston If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Ulverston I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Ulverston Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Ulverston Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Ulverston
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