Achinglegs - A guide to walking in Salisbury, Wessex and the New Forest . Includes a listing of described walks .
Amesbury Walkers - Features membership details, walk schedules, permanent trails, and contacts.
Foot Trails - Offers guided walking breaks in Wiltshire.
Wansdyke - This site describes its course, with maps and how to get there.
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Walking Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Walking
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Walking I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "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) Walking
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Walking If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Walking
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Walking "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Walking
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Walking The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Walking
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Walking I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Walking
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer 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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Walking
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Walking They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "'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
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Walking Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Walking
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Walking The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Walking
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Walking The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Walking
