Gateshead Civic Walking Club - Provide organised fellwalks in the mountains of northern England, such as the Lake District, Howgills, North Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire Dales, the Cheviot Hills and the Pennines.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Walking The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Walking
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Walking Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Walking
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Walking "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Walking
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Walking
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Walking "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Walking
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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Walking Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Walking
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Walking The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Walking
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Walking I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Walking
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Walking
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Walking 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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Walking
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Walking Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Walking
