Northumberland National Park - The official web site for this National Park. It has sections on visitor services, events, conservation and education.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Northumberland Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Northumberland
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Northumberland Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Northumberland
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Northumberland Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Northumberland
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Northumberland The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Northumberland
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Northumberland Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Northumberland
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Northumberland "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 Northumberland
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Northumberland "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Northumberland
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Northumberland "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Northumberland
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Northumberland "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Northumberland
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Northumberland Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Northumberland
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Northumberland A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Northumberland
