River Parrett Trail - Located midway between the Somerset and Dorset coastlines and follows the river from source to mouth . Includes publications and a photo tour .
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Walking The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Walking
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Walking Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Walking
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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Walking Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Walking
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Walking If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Walking
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Walking Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Walking
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Walking They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Walking
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Walking Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Walking
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Walking People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Walking
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Walking "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Walking
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Walking The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 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
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi 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 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Walking Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Walking
