John Rylands University Library of Manchester - The largest non legal deposit academic library in the United Kingdom. Lists information about the library, A to Z index, subject information, services and contact details.
Elizabeth Gaskell Library - Situated on Hathersage Road approximately one and a half miles from Manchester City Centre, and supports the Faculty of Community Studies, Law and Education. Lists opening hours, facilities and library services.
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. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Libraries Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Libraries
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Libraries Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Libraries
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Libraries "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Libraries
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Libraries Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Libraries
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Libraries "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Libraries
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Libraries Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Libraries
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Libraries To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Libraries
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Libraries A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Libraries
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Libraries Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Libraries
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Libraries Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Libraries
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Libraries If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Libraries
