Millennium Way - Information about the 100 mile path in the centre of England, plus tips for new walkers.
St Kenelm's Way - Detailed guide to a newly developed long distance walk across Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, linking the two places most connected with the life of the ninth century Mercian Saint.
Icknield Way Path - Known as the oldest road in Britain running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath . Includes guides for walkers, accommodation and transport .
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Long Distance Paths If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Long Distance Paths
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Long Distance Paths Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Long Distance Paths
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Long Distance Paths "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Long Distance Paths "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Long Distance Paths
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Long Distance Paths "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Long Distance Paths
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Long Distance Paths 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Long Distance Paths
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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Long Distance Paths Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Long Distance Paths
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Long Distance Paths 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Long Distance Paths
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Long Distance Paths The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Long Distance Paths
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Long Distance Paths A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Long Distance Paths
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Long Distance Paths 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Long Distance Paths
