Ashton-in-Makerfield Community Forum - A non-political organisation for residents, traders and others with an interest in maintaining and developing the area to enhance the life of the local community.
Ashton-in-Makerfield Community Forum - A non-political organisation for residents, traders and others with an interest in maintaining and developing the area to enhance the life of the local community.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Society and Culture A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Society and Culture It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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
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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Society and Culture
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "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) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Society and Culture 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Society and Culture
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Society and Culture One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 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 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture
