Bonington.com: - All the latest news on Sir Chris Bonington and his latest and next expeditions. Recently updated to include new picture library and bookstore.
Uldale on the Internet - A guide to the picturesque village of Uldale and surrounds in the northern Lake District National Park.
The Cumbria Directory Wigton - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Wigton Dog Training Club - Classes in obedience and agility. Club information, class details and a trial schedule to download.
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Wigton "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Wigton
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Wigton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Wigton
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Wigton "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Wigton
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Wigton Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Wigton
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Wigton Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Wigton
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Wigton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wigton
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Wigton Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Wigton
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Wigton We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Wigton
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Wigton Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wigton
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Wigton If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Wigton
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Wigton God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Wigton
