Hinckley Ramblers - Walks organised most weekends throughout the year, ranging from 5 miles half-day local walks to 12-15 mile full day walks. Local branch of the Ramblers' Association . Contact details and walks programme .
Coalville Ramblers - Contact details, walks programme and links to related resources .
Loughborough Ramblers - Organise Sunday walks between 12 and 20 kilometres in length . Walks programme, photograph album, contact details and related links .
Leicesterwalk - A site dedicated to walking in Leicestershire and Rutland, including walk routes, local information and equipment reviews.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Walking Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Walking
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Walking I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Walking
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Walking "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Walking The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Walking
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Walking Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Walking
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history 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) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Walking
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Walking The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Walking
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Walking Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Walking
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Walking In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walking
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Walking Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Walking
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Walking .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Walking
