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Local History of Longton - Recollections of Longton, Penwortham and surrounding areas. Also local news from the old Preston newspapers.
St Andrew's Church, Longton - Features events, people, letters, photographs, wildlife stories and genealogy.
Longton Health Centre - Provides doctor and practice information from making an appointment to obtaining test results. Lists opening hours, times and contact details.
Longton Online - Community guide, with photographs of buildings, people, places and pram races, local history, Parish Council meeting minutes, business directory and humour from residents.
New Longton On-Line - A web site for the village of New Longton. Contains history, shops, schools, churches, links, clubs and societies and what's on.
Broadband Longton - Campaign for provide broadband to the area. Includes flyers and discussion forum.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Longton They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Longton Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Longton "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Longton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Longton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Longton If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Longton "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Longton If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry 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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Longton We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Longton I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Longton If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H Longton Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton 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 If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Longton The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Longton I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Longton Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Longton The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Longton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Longton The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Longton "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Longton Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "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) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Longton Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Longton
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