Hillwalking in Ireland - Simon Stewart's hillwalking in Ireland, routes, photographs, and descriptions of several long walks .
Northern Ireland - Walking & Hiking - Lots of shorter walks based along the 560 miles Ulster Way. Official Site of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board
Your Guide to Walks in South-East Ulster - General information plus samples and online ordering information for 23 walk cards (free). From The Kingdoms of Down, Co Down.
Magee Hillwalking Club - One of the oldest and most established clubs in the University of Ulster, Magee Campus in Derry. Organises weekly outings throughout most of the academic year. Includes contacts, news, photographs and related links .
Walks in the Mournes - Guided walks in the Mourne Mountains with Domnall McComish. Contains information and prices.
Sperrins Hillwalking Club - Lists club walks calendar, constitution and joining information. Gallery of club walks in Ireland and Italy.
Wilderness Ranger - Information about mountain guiding service, and courses looking at survival and navigation.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Walking "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Walking
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Walking Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Walking
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "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 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Walking Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "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 Walking
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Walking blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Walking
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Walking blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Walking
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Walking Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Walking
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Walking There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Walking
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Walking "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Walking
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Walking Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Walking
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Walking It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Walking
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Walking The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Walking
