The Abbey Church of St Hilda - A virtual tour of this 12th century church together with contact details and events guide.
Blackhall Rocks and Colliery - Photographs, information and history for the small ex coal mining town of Blackhall near Hartlepool.
Hartlepool History - The history of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool, designed with the Family Historian in mind.
Hartlepool Family History Society - Genealogical Society. History, purpose, past and future meetings, tips and links. A branch of the Cleveland Family History Society.
Saint Joseph's R.C. Church - Catholic church. Contact details, events, Mass times in bulletin, photographs, directions, parish history.
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Society and Culture
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
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 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 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Society and Culture May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture
"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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
