The Longmynd Hike - A 50 mile competition hike open to anyone aged 16 or older, held annualy on the first weekend of October.
Shropshire Area Ramblers Association - Promotes rambling, walking, protects rights of way, campaigns for access to open country and defends the countryside.Includes links to local groups, walks programme and events .
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Walking The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Walking
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Walking Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Walking
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Walking A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Walking
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Walking 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Walking
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Walking Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Walking
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Walking Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Walking
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Walking In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Walking
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Walking The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 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. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Walking "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Walking
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Walking It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Walking
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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." ( Walking Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Walking
