High Peak Interactive - Directory of local businesses, tourist attractions and facilities, and events diary for the High Peak area, within the Peak National Park.
Dales Peak Tours - Includes local tours and transport around Chatsworth House.
Visit Derbyshire - Comprehensive collection of tourist information about the area including camping, whats on, travel information and history.
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Travel and Tourism A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Travel and Tourism
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Travel and Tourism The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Travel and Tourism
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Travel and Tourism
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Travel and Tourism
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 Travel and Tourism
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Travel and Tourism
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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Travel and Tourism Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "'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) 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 Travel and Tourism "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "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) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Travel and Tourism
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Travel and Tourism Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "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) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Travel and Tourism Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Travel and Tourism
