Willesley Wood - Information about this woodland trust, includes photos site map and directions to this area [Near Ashby-de-la-Zouch.]
Conkers - Hands-on experience in the heart of the National Forest.
Snibston Discovery Park - Information about this county's all-weather science and industry museum at the former Snibston Colliery.
Grand Union Leicester Line - Describes this stretch of canal which crosses the county, together with adjacent waterways.
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Attractions The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Attractions
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Attractions Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Attractions
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Attractions Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Attractions
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Attractions "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Attractions
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions 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, It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Attractions Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Attractions
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attractions
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Attractions
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Attractions Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Attractions
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Attractions
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to What's new? Most of my wife. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Attractions "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Attractions
