Amesbury Walkers - Calendar, contacts and descriptions of trails.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports "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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Recreation and Sports
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports 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 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Recreation and Sports
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Recreation and Sports
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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. Recreation and Sports Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Recreation and Sports
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 Recreation and Sports
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Recreation and Sports "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Recreation and Sports
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Recreation and Sports He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Recreation and Sports
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Recreation and Sports If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
