The Brampton Valley Way - A 14 mile linear park near Northampton, open all year, catering for walkers, cyclists, horse riders. Easy access for the disabled. Picnic areas.
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Walking Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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) Walking
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Walking Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Walking
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Walking The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Walking
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Walking Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Walking
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Walking You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Walking
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Walking "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Walking
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Walking The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walking
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Walking Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
"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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Walking The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Walking
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Walking blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Walking
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Walking An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Walking
