GlossopSpur - Local campaign for better roads. Information and on line petition form.
Friendship Inn - Information about this pub and its beers, includes photos and location details.
Old Glossop - Collection of maps and photos of this village.
Lifeline Glossop - St James' Church and St Luke's Churches in this village. Information about services, parish groups, a who's who with contact details.
The Globe Pub - Live music 5 nights a week, details of acts.
Merseybank Day Nursery - Details of service provided. Information about staff and feeding.
Glossop Rugby Club - The official web site with information, fixtures and team details.
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Glossop There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Glossop
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Glossop Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Glossop
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Glossop "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) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Glossop
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Glossop I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Glossop
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Glossop If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Glossop
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Glossop University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Glossop
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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Glossop "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Glossop
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Glossop The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Glossop
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Glossop There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Glossop
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Glossop A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Glossop
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Glossop 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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Glossop
