Neston Civic Society - Protecting the local architecture and environment. Includes a brief history of the town.
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Society and Culture
"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) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Society and Culture Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society and Culture "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Society and Culture "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Society and Culture
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Society and Culture
