Walks in Knowsley - Information on a number of walks around the Knowsley region.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Recreation and Sports
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Recreation and Sports
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. 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 Recreation and Sports "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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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) Recreation and Sports The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Recreation and Sports
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Recreation and Sports
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Recreation and Sports
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Recreation and Sports
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Recreation and Sports Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Recreation and Sports
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Recreation and Sports I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Recreation and Sports
