Stanroph Golden Retrievers - Breeders provide details of pedigrees, litters, achievements, news, stud dogs, contacts and location map. Situated in West Auckland .
Welcome to West Auckland - Personal page of this village with a notable history from murder to champions.
West Auckland Web - History, winning the World Cup, maps, Mary Anne Cotton (child poisoner), and related links.
West Auckland Methodist Church - Provides a range of information on services and activities, officials, clubs, photographs, and a location map .
Frank Hudson Transport - General road haulage specialists. Information on vehicle fleet and capabilities.
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi West Auckland If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little West Auckland
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i West Auckland Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf West Auckland
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 West Auckland Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley West Auckland
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi West Auckland While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher West Auckland
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson West Auckland Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel West Auckland
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous West Auckland If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers West Auckland
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West Auckland Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel West Auckland
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill West Auckland 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton West Auckland
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx West Auckland Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. West Auckland
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson West Auckland Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) West Auckland
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland West Auckland Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) West Auckland
