Chorley Film Society - Guide to all the films shown by the society and related arts events.
Clayton Christian Fellowship - The ministries of Clayton Christian Fellowship. An independent evangelical church, listing church details, ministries and local organisations.
Chorley Photographic Society - Provides information on the society's annual programme, location, and meeting times.
The Bells Decanter Register Club - A club for collectors of Bell's decanters. Includes description of services, membership and valuation prices and contact details.
The Green Centre Online - A resource for the rural villages of west chorley. Offering community and environment based support for villagers aiming to improve their local environment.
This is Chorley - For news, sport and leisure in Chorley. Brought to you by the Chorley Citizen.
An Independent Guide to Chorley - Featuring growing up in Chorley with pictures of celebrities, and independent film makers.
Chorley Little Theatre - A site about the shows and auditions that go on at Chorley Little Theatre and Chorley Youth Theatre
Buckshaw Village Community website - Community website for the new Buckshaw Village beng contstructed on the Old Royal Ordnance site at Euxton.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Society and Culture Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "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 Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Society and Culture Man and wife make one fool. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Society and Culture
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Society and Culture "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture 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 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Society and Culture Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
