Calleva Ramblers Association - The group's area is centered in the triangle between Basingstoke, Reading and Newbury. Includes contact details .
The Basingstoke Canal Walk - This towpath trail is a permissive footpath which stretches 33 miles from Penny Bridge to its junction with the river Wey at Woodham.
Long Distance Footpaths - A network of seven long-distance paths, in addition to the South Downs Way national trail. These routes greatly enhance the opportunities for walkers wishing to explore the best of Hampshire's countryside.
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Walking To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Walking
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Walking If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Walking
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Walking Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead 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" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Walking
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Walking I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Walking
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Walking If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Walking
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Walking 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Walking
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 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Walking Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Walking
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Walking It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Walking
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Walking "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Walking
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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" Walking "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Walking
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Walking Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Walking
