Brookmans.com - Details of ten walks in East Hertfordshire. Ranging from 2.5 to 5 miles in length.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Walking The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Walking
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Walking I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Walking
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Walking No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Walking
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Walking The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Walking
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. 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 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Walking
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Walking In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Walking
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Walking Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Walking
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Walking I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Walking Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Walking
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Walking There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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) Walking
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Walking Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Walking
