Oxfordshire 20s & 30s Walking Group - Oxfordshire based walking group for people in their 20s and 30s that is part of the Ramblers' Association.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "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 cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Walking "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Walking
May you never leave your marriage alive. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Walking "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Walking
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Walking There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Walking
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Walking "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Walking
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Walking Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Walking
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Walking Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Walking
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Walking I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Walking
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Walking "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Walking
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Walking Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Walking
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Walking
