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Virtual Nostril - Warrington resident James McCollom offers an alternative take to the generality that is life.
Warrington Photographic History - The photographic history of Warrington including famous people of the town
Lil Miss Giggles 82 - Homepage of Nick, with information on her likes and dislikes, Warrington and links to favourite sites.
Warrington Photographic Society - Programme of lectures, demonstrations and competitions with contact details and pictures taken by members.
Disability Awareness Day - Annual fun event held at Walton Hall to raise awareness of disability issues in the wider community. Exhibitions, entertainment and sport with public participation encouraged.
Warrington Cycle Campaign - Promotes improvements to safety and fosters increased cycle use in the town. Includes campaign reports, news, and local developments affecting cyclists.
Warrington Baths Action Group - Campaign to save town centre swimming. Includes campaign news, a timetable of relevant dates, and a contact page for prospective members.
Warrington Speak Freely Forum - Independent platform for discussion of local and national issues, with Hall of Shame gallery to provoke debate and improvements.
Warrington Community Resource Centre - Independent charity working with and providing office space to voluntary sector organisations, based in a large town centre building opposite the Town Hall. Aims to provide a 'one stop' advice, support and learning centre to the local community.
Warrington Mencap - Charity group providing help and support for people with a learning disability and for their families. Includes information about the group and what they do, along with news and a history.
St.Catherine's Church - Catholic Parish Church in Lowton. Mass times in parish bulletin, contact details, parish history, photo album.
Lasertech Recycling Programme - A programme to help local charities raise funds and awareness, by recycling toner and inkjet cartridges. Includes information about schemes supported.
St Benedict's Catholic Community - Parish history, Mass times, sacramental programmes and details of the parish leadership.
Lowton Operatic and Dramatic Society - Amateur operatic and dramatic society in Lowton. Productions, members, news and invitation to join.
Lowton Independent Methodist Church - Offers welcome, service, Sunday school, information on weddings, all age activities, beliefs, news, Bible study, testimony, links, contact and history.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Society and Culture To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Society and Culture Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Society and Culture He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle 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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Society and Culture To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
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