Peak and Northern Footpaths Society - A registered charity dedicated to preserving public rights of way. Details of membership, volunteer activities, organised walks, footpath fault reporting. Includes Derbyshire.
Railway Walks - Comprehensive information about walks along old disused railway track beds across this region.
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Walking "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Walking Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo 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 Walking
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Walking "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Walking
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Walking
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Walking "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Walking
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Walking Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Walking
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Walking Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Walking
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Walking "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Walking
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Walking I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Walking
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 Walking Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Walking
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Walking Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Walking
