Black Mountain March - The March is a fun organised charity walk around the beautiful countryside of the Black Mountain in South Wales, on the first Sunday of October.
WTB Walking in Wales information - Wales Tourist Board provides a searchable database of links to all Wales based websites of interest to Walkers.
Across Wales Walk - Information on the annual walk, plus maps, guides and GPS information.
Tamaris Hiking - Walking and hiking guides, routes and descriptions, plus GPS downloads.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Walking If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Walking
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Walking 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 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Walking
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Walking Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Walking
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Walking
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Walking "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) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) 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 Walking
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Walking God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Walking
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Walking "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Walking
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Walking "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Walking
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Walking Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Walking
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Walking blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Walking
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Walking "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Walking
