Dorset Long Distance Walkers Group - Events calendar, membership contacts and newsletter. Includes information on the Hardy Annual challenge walk .
Dorset Coast Path - A photographic journey along this path with geology, and flora and fauna . Includes related links .
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Walking I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Walking
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) My other wife is beautiful. Walking Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Walking
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Walking "'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) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Walking
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Walking Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Walking
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Walking All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Walking
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Walking "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Walking
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Walking It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Walking
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Walking Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Walking
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Walking Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Walking
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Walking Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Walking
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Walking If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Walking
